{"id":30,"date":"2018-04-13T11:42:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T09:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/onchipsensing\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:57:25","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/onchipsensing\/","title":{"rendered":"Photonic Sensors for Trace Gas Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-307 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/onchipsensing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/362\/2019\/03\/chip4-300x222.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/onchipsensing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/362\/2019\/03\/chip4-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/onchipsensing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/362\/2019\/03\/chip4-768x569.png 768w, https:\/\/site.uit.no\/onchipsensing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/362\/2019\/03\/chip4.png 852w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/>Quantification of green house gas sources in the vast and poorly accessible areas of the arctic requires new sensors, small and light enough to be carried by drones &#8211; and at the same time sensitive enough to detect CO<sub>2<\/sub> methane at atmospheric concentrations.<br \/>However, the sensitivity of commercially available, on-chip trace gas sensors\u00a0is still at least 2-3 orders of magnitude lower than what is needed for applications in atmospheric monitoring and climate research. This comes as a natural consequence of miniaturization: sensitivity scales with interaction length, which is directly related to instrument size.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of our research is to push the boundary of what is possible with on-chip spectroscopy.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantification of green house gas sources in the vast and poorly accessible areas of the arctic requires new sensors, small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":859,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/onchipsensing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/onchipsensing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/onchipsensing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/onchipsensing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/onchipsensing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/onchipsensing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/onchipsensing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/onchipsensing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}