Visualization of the Gas Spatial Distribution of the Odor Source by SERS Gas Sensor

Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) technique is used to fabricate the gas sensor, which is developed for the visualization of the spatial distribution of gas evaporating from odor source. The 3 x 3 SERS sensor array is put on the odor source and then scanned by the home-made detection system to obtain the Raman spectra of the odor. The intensities of the characteristic peaks from the collected spectra are used to draw a heatmap graph. After the heatmap graph is processed by the noise reduction, the localization of the odor source can be clearly identified through the resulting graph. (c) 2024 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.