MEMS Point Detection Products

Our patented MEMS miniaturization technologies are enabling breakthrough new products, like the ChemPen™, a pen-size, battery-operated FTIR sensor which can detect essentially any gas, liquid or solid.

Block's strategy is similar to today's "Intel Inside" model, under which Block's unique MEMS "chips" would become the "engines" inside handheld-type devices that could analyze substances both inside and outside the traditional laboratory settings. Block's value proposition is small size and very low cost.

This revolutionary concept of "Mobile Instrumentation" will create a new generation of small, low cost sensors that still offer high functionality. The concept is similar to, today's cell-phones/PDAs or laptops computers, which have revolutionized the fields of Mobile Communications and Mobile Computing with increasingly low cost/high functionality capabilities.

• ChemPen™ Sensor: Low-cost, miniaturized, pen-size FTIR spectrometer capable of identifying ppm-level liquid and gaseous hazardous substances (including all Chemical Warfare Agents and Toxic Industrial Chemicals) under field conditions. Target markets: Military, Homeland Security, Life Safety
• ChemBox™ Sensor: Low-cost, small laptop-size FTIR spectrometer capable of identifying ppm-level liquid and gaseous hazardous substances (including all Chemical Warfare Agents and Toxic Industrial Chemicals) under controlled conditions. Target markets: Teaching, Laboratory, Quality Control
• LaserChem™ Sensor: Low-cost, cell-phone size, Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCLs)–based system for very low (potentially ppt-level) detection of solid, liquid and gaseous substances (including all Chemical Warfare Agents and Toxic Industrial Chemicals). Target markets: Any Market with Substance Analysis need.