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Business Media Matters : May 2010
Business Magazines Begin to Show Improvement in February 2010
BIN Report expands to four revenue platforms; data now included
Print revenue in February declined by 7.5% versus one year ago, while ad pages declined by 9.4%. This compares favorably with January, during which revenue declined by 12.4% and ad pages declined by 15.3%.
Despite overall losses, certain categories showed revenue growth in the first two months of 2010. These categories include: Agriculture (9.7%), Aviation, Aerospace & Military (4.7%), Healthcare (11.4%), and Miscellaneous (7.0%). The data, by category, is available here.
ABMs Business Information Network examines 21 markets comprised of all business-to-business books tracked by IMS/The Auditor, and PERQ/HCI for healthcare figures. Evolving with the industry, ABM has expanded its BIN reporting once again to now cover the industrys four key revenue platforms: print, tradeshows, digital and data. The two newest categories, digital and data, both grew in share of b-to-b revenue in 2009 and now account for 1 out of 4 industry dollars.
Total b-to-b print revenue was most impacted by the economy last year, followed by trade shows, then digital media. With regard to share of b-to-b revenue, both trade shows and digital have increased.
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About CEIR (Tradeshows):
For 30 years, CEIR has been highlighting the importance of exhibitions in today's business environment. Its goal is to promote the image, value and growth of exhibitions. This is accomplished through producing primary research studies that prove the effectiveness and efficiency of exhibitions as a marketing medium.
About Inquiry Management Systems (IMS) (Print):
With offices in Toronto, New York and London, IMS has served magazine publishing professionals since 1979. Over 1,400 magazine titles utilize its array of products that help sell additional pages of advertising, increase lead results for advertisers, and produce creative Web solutions.
About Outsell, Inc. (Data): Outsell is the only research and advisory firm focused on advancing the publishing and information industries. The firms international team provides independent, fact-based analysis and actionable advice that helps our clients thrive and grow in today's fast-changing digital and global environment.
Digital revenue sources are: ABM members, PricewaterhouseCoopers / IAB, eMarketer, and Outsell Inc.
Sales Promotion Awards Entry Deadline Extended to June 17!
Theres still time to submit your best promotional materials for ABM's 2010 Sales Promotion Awards!
The program was originally instituted as the ABM Media Kit Awards to recognize the hard work and creativity of the marketing and publishing teams that create media kits. Whether to promote a product launch or event, inform the industry about M&A or a new company division, or simply to call a press conference, media kits have been integral in allowing companies to remain transparent via tools that likewise provide sales teams with tangible assets for selling advertising and sponsorships.
Now, the ABM Sales Promotion Awards reflect a new focus on the entire suite of promotional materials that support all sales efforts, including e-mail promotion and other digital collateral.
The categories are:
Brand Media Kit/Printed (print)
Brand Media Kit/Digital Interactive Format (online only)
Exhibitor Sales Kit/Printed (print)
Email Promotion (excludes all e-newsletters)
Stand-Alone Flyer/Printed (excludes campaigns, must be independent)
Stand-Alone Brochure/Printed (excludes campaigns, must be independent)
In keeping with the times, the entry process for the Awards has moved online for ease of entry. Click here to enter now, and here to download the Call for Entries PDF and a sample entry form.
The deadline to enter is Thursday, June 17. Finalists and winners will be celebrated during a special breakfast this summer in New York City.
Click here to watch highlights from the 2009 Achievement Awards breakfast, and listen in as Kevin Arsham and Glenn Laudenslager share media and marketing insights.
For more information or questions on the entry process, contact John Beisner at email@example.com or 212-661-6360 ext. 3330.
Forrester Research on Social Media Now Available Exclusively for ABM Members
Social media has undoubtedly become intertwined with marketing so how can it be leveraged to engage buyer behavior tendencies in your market? Committed to providing members with valuable new information affecting their businesses, ABM teamed up with Forrester to provide a free, members-only webinar dedicated to answering that question, as well as to exploring key findings about social medias role in the b-to-b buying process.
Marketing is about understanding your audience in order to convey a message. Thus, Forrester has employed Social Technographics® or psychographic user information as a way to benchmark buyer behavior by the level of participation in social activity. For example, 74 percent of Forrester's respondents fit the Spectators profile they read blogs, online forums, customer ratings/reviews, and tweets. They listen to podcasts and watch video from other users. According to the research, 46 percent are Joiners, maintaining a profile on and regularly visiting a social networking site. So, how can you use social media to position your brand in front of each user type in order to effectively communicate your message?
The webinar, now available on-demand, provides information about what determines user types behavior, and how to engage them during the decision-making process.
Tune in now and learn about:
- The evolving use of social media and the social behavior of business buyers
- How business buyers utilize social media in the workplace and their attitudes toward social sources of information
- Best practices for identifying which social media tools matter at specific points in the b-to-b purchase process, as well as how to develop social media marketing programs that engage buyers
- How to integrate social media platforms to optimize the way b-to-b marketers reach b-to-b decision-makers
ABM members: Click here to view the webinar on-demand and access the presentation deck.
The ABM Vital Guide to Mobile Advertising
Mobile advertising is a complex ecosystem of brands, carriers, device makers and platform vendors. The market is still immature, but its not too early to start thinking about how mobile media fits into the marketing mix.
No matter where you find yourself in the evolution (and monetization) of mobile, the latest ABM Vital Guide offers guidance on the key issues, the major players, and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Click here to check it out.
Through a recent partnership with Vital Business Medias eMedia Vitals, ABM is proud to deliver the ABM Vital Guide, a free weekly e-newsletter containing high-quality, actionable content on the hottest digital media trends affecting the b-to-b industry. Each week, the ABM Vital Guide tackles one specific digital media trend or product with the potential to dramatically influence members digital revenues. Previous editions have thoroughly covered such issues as audience development, content aggregation, database marketing, online event models, e-newsletters and subscription management. Click here to subscribe now!
Rep. Boucher Announces Details of Proposed Privacy Legislation
ABM poised to shape bill on behalf of industry
Congressman Rick Boucher (D-VA) kicked off ABMs 2010 Annual Conference earlier this month by announcing details of draft privacy legislation that would apply to all activities, online and offline, in which advertisers use information collected from consumers to target ads to the consumer's apparent interests. (See Wall Street Journal coverage here.)
In detailing the legislation, Boucher said, "Our purpose is not to interfere with legitimate behavioral advertising, but there is a great deal of concern from Internet users about how their information is being used."
Boucher noted that a recent New York Times article suggested that behavioral advertising was declining, possibly because of regulatory uncertainty; he hoped that his bill would provide certainty and thus encourage the growth of behavioral advertising.
Click here for an executive summary of Rep. Bouchers bill, which would initially require that all Web sites that collect information from consumers give consumers notice with respect to the information collected, how it is used, who it is shared with, and the circumstances under which it is shared. Consumers would be given control over collection and use practices under an opt-out protocol. Boucher emphasized that, under an opt-out system, the default is that information can be collected and used as described in the Web site's policy.
Boucher said that his proposed bill incorporates what he called "best practices that exist today among those involved in Internet advertising." He noted that Google and Yahoo, for example, currently provide opportunities for consumers to register their choices with respect to targeted advertising. Boucher added that his proposed bill would preempt state legislation on the subject, and would delegate civil enforcement to the Federal Trade Commission.
ABM is poised to play a key role in influencing the proposed privacy legislation, and Boucher is specifically seeking the Associations feedback and support. As the importance of this issue is critical to our industry's future, ABM has already held several meetings of its Information Policy Committee and membership to inform and enlist feedback that will reflect our industrys view and help shape the legislation (comments are due June 4).
Technical Specifications Issued for New Behavioral Advertising Icons
Last month, in a critical step toward advancing ongoing (and ABM-supported) industry self-regulation, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) announced their release of the CLEAR (Control Links for Education and Advertising Responsibly) Ad Notice Technical Specifications, a set of common technical standards enabling enhanced notice in online ads.
These new technical specifications, found here, will allow advertisers and ad networks to begin offering a clickable icon in or near online ads that directs users to additional information about online behavioral advertising and choices about such ads.
The icon-based approach to enhanced consumer notice was outlined in the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising, which were released in July 2009 by a coalition of associationsAmerican Association of Advertising Agencies (4As), Association of National Advertisers (ANA), Direct Marketing Association (DMA), Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the Council for Better Business Bureaus (BBB).
Meanwhile, the IAB also announced recently that it is working with the Council of Better Business Bureaus on enforcement procedures for the self-regulatory process. During the group's annual leadership summit in February, its board of directors and general membership body voted to establish a code of conduct intended to help the government enforce the IAB's privacy guidelines. (Click here for more information on this.)
Marketers: Use Location-Based Mobile Services to Better Engage Audiences
Some major media brands are using location-based service Foursquare to engage audiences, reported Mediaweek, and in doing so are opening up a channel for delivering hyperlocal news. According to Mediaweek, The Wall Street Journal and New York Times are using the GPS-based mobile software to share on-the-spot news and information, including the Times' coverage of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Foursquare and rival Gowalla are free, simple-to-use applications that access GPS in mobile devices and provide users the opportunity to choose to share their location at any venue. The medium lends itself to reviews, travel content, and location-based data. Just like Twitter and Facebook, reporters can easily build employment of location-based mobile apps into their on-the-go reporting routine, and marketers can likewise showcase brands on the apps using quality content from media partners.
Leverage this opportunity to reach audiences by:
- Setting up a Foursquare or other location-based service account for your brand and dedicate a team leader to oversee the account. Have that person learn how to operate the application on their mobile device and charge them with keeping the rest of the team up-to-date.
- Make it clear to the team that any events, field reports, or other industry-related outings should be documented using the application, pushed out along with brand-building content.
- Be sure to keep messaging short and to the point, and only link to content relevant to the location.
Marketing Services: Solving the Great Muddle
According to chatter around media water coolers lately, magazine publishers are no longer necessarily in the news game rather, marketing services are opening up a bevy of revenue opportunities. But how do you get started? ABMs Annual Conference, held earlier this month in Charleston, SC, sought to answer that question with a dedicated marketing services panel comprised of John Sequerth, publications manager at UPS; Hanley Wood VP of Corporate Sales and Chair of ABMs Entrepreneurial Committee Michael Hurley; and Tom Miller, partner at agency Miller Brooks.
Miller drew on his agency experience to advise publishers not to try to be everything to everybody. Each of Miller Brooks 24 customers uses multiple firms to create content. Rather than competing with each other or with customers evaluate your core strengths and bring them to the collaboration table, he said, adding, No one owns the customer, the customer is a free agent.
And at the end of the day, marketing services are about adding value to the client, Miller said. Publishers know audiences better than advertisers, according to Hurley, and are positioned to provide that value, as long as they stop selling and listen, he said. Whether its the selling assets model, or the audience-and-market-centric model, or something else, ABMs Entrepreneurial Committee is seeking the best models to present to members, said Hurley, who pointed to Meredith Corporations 360 division as a winner because it offers a broad range of services with little to no regard to media (not selling Meredith brands). In Q1, 360 is already at 50 percent of what the division earned in all of 2009, according to Hurley.
Need more incentive to get involved? Hurley told attendees that marketing services dollars can be twice that of media dollars.
The Entrepreneurial Committee in working with the ANA and Booz & Company on a study to determine those winning marketing services models is currently seeking members who have experience in the space to weigh in. Contact Hurley at firstname.lastname@example.com to share your perspective.
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An ion-sensitive field effect transistor has a gate consisting of metal silicate. The gate of metal silicate provides high resistance to aggressive measured substances and further has a high long-term stability. The gate of the ion-sensitive field effect transistor may include a single layer gate, wherein the gate is arranged directly on the channel region.
1. An ion sensitive field effect transistor for measuring an ion concentration of a fluid comprising:
a source region, a drain region, and a channel region between the source region and the drain region; and
a gate formed above the channel region;
wherein the gate either comprises only a layer of metal silicate as dielectric layer and ion-sensitive layer or wherein the gate comprises a layer of metal silicate as ion-sensitive layer, a dielectric layer of another material being formed between the ion-sensitive layer and the channel region; and
wherein said ion-sensitive layer is arranged to be exposed to said fluid to be measured.
2. The ion-sensitive field effect transistor of
3. The ion-sensitive field effect transistor of
This application is a continuation of copending International Application No. PCT/EP02/12785, filed on Nov. 14, 2002, which designated the United States and was not published in English.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to field effect transistors and particularly to ion-sensitive field effect transistors as well as to a method for producing the same.
2. Description of the Related Art
Ion-sensitive field effect transistors (ISFET) serve as detection elements, for example in measuring a pH value, in measuring ionic concentrations or special substance concentrations in solutions of various compositions and conductivities. Areas of application of ion-sensitive field effect transistors for the continuous detection of concentrations are process measurement technology, analytical chemistry, industrial process monitoring or environment monitoring, wherein measurements are usually performed in aqueous solutions or organic mixtures. Aspects of particular importance are a highly precise concentration detection and a minimum long-term drift of the sensor in connection with acceptable costs.
Measurements of ionic concentrations in aqueous media are traditionally performed with glass electrodes both in process measurement technology and in laboratory measurement technology. In many aggressive media, it is possible to operate the glass electrodes stably, but in strongly alkaline solutions, their stability is limited.
Further, glass electrodes are usually not employed in hydrofluoric acid. The adjusting of the measurement value occurs very slowly. When they are manufactured, glass electrodes require a high percentage of manual labor making them expensive. Further, the area of application of glass electrodes is limited, because they produce chippings when breaking. For example, it is not possible to employ glass electrodes in food technology, because the chippings that result from breaking represent dangerous foreign bodies in food. Glass electrodes are preferably used in process measurement technology.
Further, due to technical reasons, particularly because a correspondingly large internal buffer volume is required, analogously to a reference electrode, with a sufficiently designed internal drain, mostly an Ag/AgCl arrangement, there is no possibility of efficient miniaturization of the glass electrodes. In the case of an ion-sensitive field effect transistor, the internal buffer and this second drain system are eliminated.
In addition, due to the necessary glass membrane thickness, the pH measurement system based on glass electrodes is a system with a high impedance and thus sensitive to environmental interferences. Therefore, the measurement lines should always be shielded and the distance of the electrodes should be kept at a minimum.
In contrast to the glass electrodes, the use of ion-sensitive field effect transistors represents a break-proof alternative to the ion-sensitive measurement in liquids so that they may be employed in areas where there are required additional operational safety requirements, such as in food technology. The application of the ion-sensitive field effect transistors for ionic concentration measurement, particularly for the measurement of the pH value, has been known for a long time, see for example P. Bergveld, IEEE Trans. Biomed. E17 (1979), p. 70. These sensors are further suitable for the miniaturization of the measurement system, the production of integrated systems and for a cost-effective production, and are superior to the conventional glass electrode in these respects.
Typically, when measuring with an ion-sensitive field effect transistor, its gate is brought in contact with the measured fluid. A change in potential at the gate caused by a change of an ionic concentration in the measured fluid results in a measurement signal. As the gate comes in direct contact with the measured liquid during the measurement, gate materials have to be used for the application in aggressive media, when high long-term stability and/or a low drift are required, which are resistant to the respective measured medium for long periods of time.
For producing hydrogen ion-sensitive layers, various materials such as Si3N4, Al2N3, ZrO2, Ta2O5 and diamond-like carbon (DLC) have already been examined. For descriptions of such sensors, see, for example, Van der Schoot et al., Sensors & Actuators 4 (1983), p. 267, D. Sobczynska et al., Sensors & Actuators 6 (1984), p. 93, M. Klein et al., VDI-Berichte 509 (1983), p. 275, and T. Sakai et al., Internat. Electron Devices Meeting, Techn. Digest (1987), p. 711.
Ion-sensitive field effect transistors with a gate of Si3N4 are suitable for use in the above requirements only in a limited way, because the gate of Si3N4 is subjected to a high drift and exhibits low long-term stability. Further, the ion-sensitive field effect transistors with a gate of Si3N4 cannot be used in an aggressive media for longer periods of time.
Compared to Si3N4 as gate material, the use of metal oxides as gate material allows to achieve improved properties of ion-sensitive field effect transistors with respect to pH sensitivity, long-term stability, photosensitivity and drift.
Due to the crystalline structure of the metal oxides after thermal stress, the settling times of these sensors are larger as compared to the ion-sensitive field effect transistors of usually amorphous Si3N4. Ion-sensitive field effect transistors with a metal oxide gate further have the disadvantage that they do not have sufficient resistance to alkaline solutions at higher temperatures and hydrofluoric acid. Further, thermal treatments of metal oxides are performed in prior art for improving the chemical stability of an ion-sensitive field effect transistor on metal oxide basis. This forms crystalline modifications, causing, however, weak spots at the grain boundaries, which, in turn, favor ionic indiffusion which may increase drift or degrade photosensitivity.
Recent developments use ion-sensitive field effect transistors in which amorphous diamond-like carbon (DLC) is used as gate material, which has a high percentage of sp3-hybridized carbon bonds. Such systems have very high chemical resistance, particularly in hydrofluoric acid. One disadvantage of using amorphous diamond-like carbon is, however, that layers of this material have a high internal stress which reduces layer adhesion and may result in the layers peeling off and the consequent destruction of the ion-sensitive field effect transistor. Furthermore, phase boundaries may result in long settling times of the measurement signal. Therefore, these ion-sensitive field effect transistors are not suitable for long-term use in all areas of application.
For the production of stable transistors, the layer materials used in prior art require a double-layer system in the channel consisting of SiO2 and the sensitive layer to achieve a stable interface to silicon provided with minimal charge centers. This is associated with an increased production effort for the sensor chips and, due to the critical interfaces, a reduced yield.
It is the object of the present invention to provide a low-cost, safe and long-term stable ion-sensitive field effect transistor and a method for producing the same.
The present invention provides an ion-sensitive field effect transistor having a gate of metal silicate.
Further, the present invention provides a method for producing an ion-sensitive field effect transistor, comprising:
In accordance with a first aspect, the present invention provides a field effect transistor for measuring an ionic concentration having a gate of metal silicate, wherein the gate either has only a layer of metal silicate as dielectric layer and ion-sensitive layer or wherein the gate has a layer of metal silicate as ion-sensitive layer, a dielectric layer of another material being formed between the ion-sensitive layer and the channel region.
In accordance with a second aspect, the present invention provides a method for producing a field effect transistor for measuring an ionic concentration, having the steps of providing a substrate having a source region and a drain region; and generating a gate of metal silicate on the substrate, wherein the gate either has only a layer of metal silicate as dielectric layer and ion-sensitive layer, or wherein the gate has a layer of metal silicate as ion-sensitive layer, a dielectric layer of another material being formed between the ion-sensitive layer and the channel region.
The present invention is based on the finding that an ion-sensitive field effect transistor with high stability and high sensitivity as well as low drift at good long-term stability is achieved by using metal silicate as gate material. The stability and sensitivity to an ion to be detected which are obtained by the use of metal silicate as gate material are comparable to those of metal oxides.
One advantage of the inventive ion-sensitive field effect transistor is that there is little transverse sensitivity, particularly with respect to alkali ions. Due to the structural properties of the metal silicates, expressed by a larger band gap as compared to metal oxides, less UV light-induced drift is caused.
By using metal silicates or metal silicate compounds, especially the silicates of hafnium and zirconium, there is further achieved high chemical stability of the ion-sensitive field effect transistor.
The increased chemical stability as compared to an ion-sensitive field effect transistor having a gate of metal oxide is the result of the high bonding strength of the metal silicate, expressed by the free enthalpy and the band gap.
Due to the high chemical stability, sensors having a metal silicate gate are provided with a broad range of applications, for example in the pH measurement technology.
Unlike the known ion-sensitive field effect transistors having a gate of Si3N4, metal oxide or diamond-like carbon, in which a double-layer structure is required in the transistor channel with an isolating layer and a sensitive layer, the use of metal silicates, and particularly of hafnium silicate and/or zirconium silicate, as sensitive layer allows to thin out significantly or do completely without the isolator layer SiO2 below the sensitive layer which would otherwise be necessary. The production of a stable ion-sensitive field effect transistor having these materials according to the simple technology is based on the impurity-free transition from silicon to metal silicate.
Further, the use of metal silicates as gate material does not only achieve improved sensor properties, but also good reproducibility of the transistor parameters. The reproducibility of the transistor parameters is decisive for the application of the ISFET sensors. Thereby, the ion-sensitive field effect transistor on metal silicate basis may be achieved as a low-cost, highly stable sensor, for example for the use in industrial process measurement technology and environment monitoring.
Furthermore, while maintaining the chemical stability of the sensitive layer, the operating point of the sensor may be set such that the ionic movement in the electrical field is minimized during sensor operation. This further reduces the field-supported induffision of ions into the gate isolator. The embodiment with a single layer construction over the channel allows a reproducible sensor without interfering interface comprising a minimum of settling time.
The transistor parameters determine the operating point position of the sensor and the spread of the sensor parameters. The basis of homogeneous transistor parameters is the control of the isolator interfaces to silicon and, in the case of multiple layers, between the layers. The possibility of producing single layers therefore eliminates the critical interfaces of multiple layers. The interface exclusively dominant in the single layer gate isolator is the one of silicate to silicon. In the case of the metal silicate, it is characterized by the similarity of the atomic bonding states of the silicate with the amorphous SiO2 resulting in interfaces which are formed largely free of stress and defects.
On the other hand, the silicates of zirconium and hafnium are thermodynamically stable in contact with SiO2 and silicon so that there is no formation of silicide. This improves both drift and chemical stability.
Furthermore, the variability of the ratio of metal to silicon in the silicates allows generating layers with crystalline to amorphous structure. This can improve the response of the sensors as compared to that of metal oxide ion-sensitive field effect transistors.
The ion-sensitive field effect transistor realized in a single layer construction further reduces the required number of substeps in the production process, thus lowering production costs.
In this embodiment, the number of interfaces may thus be reduced, wherein there is the possibility to implement the layer over the channel in less thickness. This achieves a simple and low-cost production.
Generating the gate of metal silicate on the substrate may be done by sputtering or CVD depositing or vapor depositing of the metal silicate, by sputtering or CVD depositing or vapor depositing of a metal with subsequent silicatizing of the metal, or by sputtering or CVD depositing or vapor depositing of a metal with subsequent siliconizing of the metal and subsequent oxidizing.
Further, there may be performed tempering for adjusting sensor properties or some other post-treatment for adjusting a structural property of the gate. The tempering may be performed at temperatures higher than 500░ C. under inert atmosphere, such as under N2 pr noble gases and/or with oxidizing gas components. The structural property of the gate may thus be adjusted to a predetermined property between amorphous and crystalline.
Preferably, the layer production in semiconductor processes is performed by means of a CMOS-compatible technology, i.e. for example a planar technology, wherein further circuit elements integrated on the chip, which are for example used for detecting measurement data, may be generated together with the ion-sensitive field effect transistor. This achieves a low-cost production. A further advantage of the present invention is that the inventive ion-sensitive field effect transistor may be operated in a safe manner, i.e. without a risk of generating chippings when breaking, whereby it is suitable for areas of application requiring high operational safety, such as food technology.
The inventive ion-sensitive field effect transistor having a gate of metal silicate is further environmentally compatible, i.e. its use for example in food technology is possible without problems.
Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be explained in more detail in the following with respect to the accompanying drawing, in which:
A p+ source region 14 and a p+ drain region 16 are formed in the substrate 12. In the substrate 12, there is further formed a substrate terminal region 18 comprising n+ doping for forming an ohmic contact.
The substrate 12 further includes p+ regions 20 and 22 respectively serving for forming an active bipolar device. The p+-doped region 20 represents a base region of a bipolar transistor 24. The bipolar transistor 24 comprises an n-doped collector region 26 and an n+-doped emitter region 28 respectively located on the sides of the base region 20.
Further, the p+-doped region 22 and an n-doped region 30 adjacent to the same represent a diode as a further bipolar device on the substrate 12.
A field oxide layer 32 is formed on a surface of the substrate 12. On the field oxide layer 32A, there is arranged a gate layer 34 which further extends across a channel region 36 formed between the source region 14 and the drain region 16. A portion of the surface of the substrate 12 above the channel region 36 is exposed, i.e. the same is not covered by the field oxide layer 32. In this exposed region, a gate 38 comprising metal silicate according to the invention is formed by the gate layer 34, which, in this embodiment, is arranged directly on the channel region.
The use of metal silicate as gate material allows to produce the field effect transistor with a single layer in the channel region in this embodiment. This means that there is only the layer of metal silicate between the measured liquid and the channel region. Here the layer of metal silicate is both the gate isolator and the sensitive layer.
A further isolating layer 40 is further formed on the gate layer 34 in the regions of the field oxide layer 32. The field effect transistor 10 further includes a terminal contact 42, for example of aluminum, which extends through the field oxide layer 32 and the isolating layers 34 and 40 and is connected to the drain region 16 and the base region 20. The terminal contact 42 includes a first contact layer 42 b and a contact layer 42 a arranged above it. The first contact layer 42 b provides a good electrical connection to the regions 16 and 20, while the contact layer 42 a arranged above it ensures good solderability for electrical terminals.
Furthermore, the ion-sensitive field effect transistor 10 includes a second terminal region 44, also having two layers 44 a and 44 b extending through the field oxide layer 32 and the isolating layers 34 and 40 so that the second terminal region 44 is connected to the source region 14 and the region 22.
A third terminal region 46 is further connected to the substrate terminal region 18.
A protective layer 48 is formed over the terminal contacts 42, 44 and 46 in order to achieve an electrical isolation of the same with respect to the measured medium when immersing the ion-sensitive field effect transistor in a measured medium. Furthermore, the protective layer 48 provides a mechanical protection for the terminal contacts 42, 44 and 46.
The field effect transistor having a gate 38 of metal silicate exhibits a higher chemical stability as compared to a gate of metal oxide due to the high bonding strength.
Thus the gate 38 of metal silicate exhibits high resistance to chemically aggressive substances so that the ion-sensitive field effect transistor 10 may be operated with high durability in aggressive chemical media, such as hydrofluoric acid. Furthermore, the inventive ion-sensitive field effect transistor is characterized by a high long-term stability and low drift.
In the above field effect transistor 10, a single layer gate construction is used, i.e. the gate layer 34 forming the gate 38 in the channel region 36 is both the gate isolator and the sensitive layer.
Preferably, hafnium silicate and/or zirconium silicate are used as material for forming the gate layer 34, because they are characterized by a particularly high chemical stability.
Using silicates further eliminates the disadvantageous properties of increased drift and low photosensitivity generated by the thermal treatment particularly in ion-sensitive field effect transistors having a metal oxide gate.
Preferably, the inventive ion-sensitive field effect transistor is produced in a CMOS process, which allows a low-cost production of the same. Typically, several ion-sensitive field effect transistors are produced in a wafer arrangement on 150 mm semiconductor wafers. Then chips comprising for example an area of about 4 mmū4 mm are mounted separately to boards and are electrically contacted. For producing a measurement system, a chip is then transferred to a suitable construction. Typically, a measurement system where the ion-sensitive field effect transistor is installed represents an immersion sensor, which may be used, for example, for detecting a pH value in industrial sewage.
In preferred embodiments of the present invention, the gate layer of metal silicate is produced by sputtering the metal, the metal oxide or the metal silicate in an oxygen-SixHy atmosphere, or by CVD deposition. For annealing and modifying the layer properties, a thermal treatment may then be performed at temperatures which are higher than 500░ C., wherein this may be performed under inert atmosphere or with oxidizing gas components.
In the following, there will be explained an example of the use of the inventive ion-sensitive field effect transistor. In this example, an ionic concentration measurement is performed using the ion-sensitive field effect transistor. For this, the field effect transistor 10 is brought into contact with a measured liquid, which may, for example, be an aqueous solution. Further, a reference electrode 50 which, for example, may consist of Ag/AgCl/KCl, is inserted into the measured medium for the measurement. A drain-source current IDS is caused via a voltage source 52 connected to the terminal contacts 42 and 44 to apply an electrical voltage UdS between the source region 14 and the drain region 16. The terminal contact 18 is on a reference potential 54, for example ground.
Due to a different electrochemical voltage valency of the materials of the reference electrode 50 and the gate 38, an electric voltage is formed between the reference electrode 50 and the gate 38 depending on an ionic concentration of the measured medium.
In a preferred embodiment, the voltage source 52 is formed to control the drain-source voltage so that there is always a constant drain-source current. In this embodiment, the gate potential is consequently determined and adjusted by the constant drain-source current for a changing ionic concentration. When the ionic concentration of the measured medium changes, the potential of the reference electrode 50 with respect to ground changes due to the changing electric voltage between the reference electrode 50 and the gate 38. Here, the voltage UGS applied between the source and the reference electrode 50 represents a measurement quantity depending on an ionic concentration of the measured medium, whereby the concentration of the measured medium may be determined by sampling the voltage UG5.
Although the described embodiments only described a field effect transistor having a p-substrate, n-source region and n-drain region, the present invention is not limited thereto, but also includes field effect transistors having an n-substrate, p-source region and p-drain region.
While this invention has been described in terms of several preferred embodiments, there are alterations, permutations, and equivalents which fall within the scope of this invention. It should also be noted that there are many alternative ways of implementing the methods and compositions of the present invention. It is therefore intended that the following appended claims be interpreted as including all such alterations, permutations, and equivalents as fall within the true spirit and scope of the present invention.
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- Diamonds: 17
- Weight: 1/10 carat
- Color: H-I
- Clarity: I1-I2
- Setting: Pave
- Metal: 14-karat gold (white, rose or yellow)
- Finish: High polish
- Style: Pave
- Band: 1.7 mm wide
Diamond total weight: 1/10* carat TW
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The Furby: Creepy and in demand
Various versions of a new Furby, produced by U.S. toy giant Hasbro and distributed by Japanese toy maker Tomy, are displayed at a press preview in Tokyo on Sept. 4, 2012. The Furby is back this holiday season, and it's as strange and coveted as it was in 1998.
In 1998 a new kind of toy hit the market. It was called the Furby, and it did everything from sleep to talk smack in its own language: Furbish.
The Furby was a smash hit, tens of millions of them sold over the next few years. This year toymaker Hasbro had a brainstorm: bring the Furby back. Already the toy has been a hit this holiday season.
"You start to project or see autonomous behavior, and then you're not sure if it's alive or not," says Furby co-creator Caleb Chung. "And so it becomes creepy."
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Next, I want to mention some of the work that the Development ad-hoc committee have been up to. They have now created an online donation site using a program by Crowdrise, an organization which helps non-profits raise funds. The site is now up and running, awaiting your contributions. There is a link to the site on the home page of the SPPonline website. Crowdrise is a well regarded organization and you can rest assured that donations and credit card information are entirely secure. An exciting part of this fundraiser is that for every donation made, an equal amount will be donated from funds set aside from the general operating fund, making the donation go twice as far. Matching will continue until we reach the goal of $50,000 in donations. Please consider making a donation. The money will be used to assure funding for existing awards and if possible, allow the creation of a second young investigator award.
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The Mad River Valley could not be more picturesque today after several recent snow storms. The mountain is skiing better than it has all winter, with 106 of 111 trails open.
We are positioned well moving into the President's Week holiday. That being said, we have been facing some challenges that I want to begin to address with you here.
Two weekends ago, we lost a young skier in an on-snow accident at Mt. Ellen. This sport can bring so much joy to families, but in this instance, it brought inexplicable sorrow. We are so sorry for the loss.
This season we have been experiencing a number of lift issues. Numerous, unrelated issues have effected Heaven's Gate, North Ridge, and most recently, Super Bravo, causing inconvenience to all our guests. Later this week, I'll be sending a separate communication detailing exactly what is going on and how we are working to solve these issues.
Lastly, we just finished hosting the Porsche Winter Driving Experience here again for the second year. We have a strong partnership with Porsche, and are happy to introduce their company and their customers to the beauty of the Mad River Valley. However, I understand that the closure of half of Straight Shot and part of the Mt. Ellen base lodge over the weekend did cause significant inconvenience to our skiers and riders. We did not anticipate the combination of the racing event, the Porsche event, and the ideal snow conditions bringing such a large crowd to Mt. Ellen. In retrospect, this was an error on our part, and I apologize. This will not happen again.
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BRIAN RICHARDS '06 stops in front of a framed black and white photograph on the H&R Block Suite Level of the new Yankee Stadium. It's one of many lining the contoured hallway leading to party suites where VIPs watch the games. "This photo is of Babe Ruth's viewing," Richards says. As evidence, he points to a line of people in the photograph stretched around the block of the old stadium, now under demolition across the street from the new $1.5 billion complex—the most expensive sports venue built in the United States.
"People are wearing short-sleeved shirts. It's summertime. Babe Ruth died in August 1948," he says. "There are only two monuments in center field—one for Lou Gehrig and one for Miller Huggins. Ruth's monument wasn't added until the spring of 1949," he adds. "But the flag is at half-staff, and The Babe lay in state in the old stadium."
It's a historian's deduction coupled with the keen eye of a curator, the combined impact of his years at Susquehanna and specialized training in museum studies at the Cooperstown Graduate Program (CGP), the premier program for training museum professionals in the United States. The program is offered through a partnership between the State University of New York College at Oneonta and the New York State Historical Association.
After graduating with a Master of Arts degree in history museum studies, Richards thought he'd have a job after applying for 10 or fewer jobs. He applied for 35 jobs and didn't get any of them. Then his luck changed. He received a call from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, where Richards had done two internships as part of his graduate studies. The New York Yankees organization was looking for a curator for the Yankees Museum, being built as part of the new stadium.
Unknown to Richards, Lonn Trost, chief operating officer for the Yankees, had been in conversation with Ted Spencer, the former chief curator of the Baseball Hall of Fame. In turn, Spencer had consulted with CGP director Gretchen Sullivan Sorin. They decided Richards could do the job before he even knew he was under consideration.
Richards interviewed with the Yankees on the Friday before Labor Day and was hired on Sept. 4, 2008. "It's the only job that I literally ran to the phone to call Mom and Dad about," he says. But for a young man from Hughesville, Pa., who never lived in a town with more than 2,000 people and three traffic lights, elation soon was tempered by a sense of trepidation. "It was the biggest high and low. On one hand, I had been offered a job with the New York Yankees. On the other hand, I thought, 'Oh my goodness, I have to live in the city,'" Richards says.


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Charles Krauthammer, political commentator and news analyst for Fox News Channel, meets with members of the media at the Millennium Centre in Johnson City. (Ron Campbell/Johnson City Press)
There's an important national debate to be had. At the root of the discussion is a fork in the road: Do we, as Americans, need more liberty or more equality?
Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer, who often speaks on Bill O'Reilly's "The O'Reilly Factor," tackled this broad topic when he spoke at East Tennessee State University's Millennium Centre on Friday morning to businessmen and business students, as well as members of the public.
Not a proponent of the direction the country has been steered in the five years since Barack Obama took office, Krauthammer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist found in about 400 worldwide newspapers, said he's optimistic about the future of the country and welcomes the debate between Republicans and Democrats.
"Everything is subordinate to politics," Krauthammer told the crowd of nearly 300 in a talk that lasted just more than an hour.
Krauthammer graduated from McGill University in Montreal; Balliol College in Oxford, England; and Harvard University in Boston, where he earned his medical degree, beginning his career as a psychiatrist.
The Democrats versus Republicans debate can be watered down to the liberty versus equality discussion, with liberty more on the right side of the aisle, he said.
Like a tennis match throughout American history, Krauthammer said things go to one side for a few years and then to the opposite side for the same, citing Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal that expanded the scope of government, something necessary at the time in Krauthammer's eyes, until Ronald Reagan shrunk government in the 1980s, with Bill Clinton keeping the status quo until Barack Obama's charge to make a big governmental impact in the way of health care, education and energy.
The Republicans' most recent attempt to put one of their own into the White House proved unsuccessful, because out of all the possible choices, Krauthammer said they right put the one man in the country who couldn't properly answer questions related to Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, modeled after the system put into place years earlier in Massachusetts. Mitt Romney, of course, was both the inventor and champion of that system while acting as governor of that state.
Krauthammer said he backed Romney, but admitted he might not have been the conservative the Republicans had wanted.
"Romney spoke conservatism as a second language," Krauthammer said.
This big debate over the size and style of government the United States wants will continue to play out over the 2014 and 2016 elections, but Krauthammer says the experiment of big government is already playing out in Western European countries that are about 20 years ahead of the U.S. Though they're operated differently than the United States' economy, Krauthammer said Greece and Spain are showing what it's like to have that high level of government oversight.
The big costs to economic systems like those are entitlement programs, he said. not that he doesn't see a use for them, he said, but there's more an abuse of them.
"For us, it's not entitlements we want to give out, but a safety net," he said. "I would argue that you can't maintain an entitlement state."
There are, he said, examples of noble liberalism, but we need to consider our debt when putting forth programs used in the "safety net."
"We cannot continue on this road. We need to do something," Krauthammer said.
Looking forward to the next presidential election in 2016, he shared a handful of names that might move forward as candidates from the right, including Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal, Scott Walker, Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, Chris Christie and his favorite pick, though he doesn't expect a run, will be Paul Ryan, who would have been vice president had Romney won in 2012.
That's OK that Ryan won't run, in his estimation, though, because Krauthammer said Ryan's so young, he'll have an opportunity in the future.
"He's so damned young, he could wait two decades and then run for president," Krauthammer said, joking that Ryan would only appear to be 22 years old at that point. Age and conservative options have him hopeful for the future of the GOP.
His list for Democratic challengers was much shorter, saying Hillary Clinton, someone "liberal" but still way to the left of the current president, who is a "social democrat," was the clear favorite to earn the nod from the left.
He ended his talk with what he called a positive quote from conservative Prussian statesman Otto Von Bismarck.
"God looks after fools, drunks, and the United States," earning himself a laugh to wrap things up.
Johnson City's Joel Carillet, a photojournalist, said he showed up to the talk to see Krauthammer, even if he didn't necessarily agree with his policies.
"I'm here as someone who's usually pretty critical of Fox News," Carillet said.
He said seeing someone speak for an hour in person is much different than seeing them as a person on cable news.
Will Webb, an accounting student at ETSU, was waiting patiently in line with his girlfriend after the talk to both purchase a copy of Krauthammer's book "Things that Matter," and was hoping to have his copy signed.
He didn't know anything about the guest speaker ahead of the talk, but noticed that he'd said a lot of relevant and eye-opening things.
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The protest movement in Yemen appears to be picking up momentum as President Ali Abdullah Saleh engaged in serious talks about ending his three-decade rule, according to media reports.
Saleh was defiant toward anti-government protesters, but was discussing the timing and conditions of giving up power, The New York Times reports.
He was also close to making a deal with Yemen's top military official, Major Gen. Ali Mohsin al-Ahmar, who has aligned himself with the anti-government protestors, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. According to that report, both men would step down and a civilian-led caretaker government would shepherd Yemen through the transition. A deal could be reached as early as Saturday, the Journal reported.
The future of Saleh's sons and relatives, many of whom run elite counterterrorism units in Yemen that are funded and trained by the U.S., is a sticking point in the negotiations, the Journal reported Friday. Although opposition parties want political reforms, Ahmar and others in the opposition are questioning whether a disruption in the command structure could expose Yemen to the threat posed by al-Qaida.
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If life be a mirror, then she is broken
And slit are my wrist by the shards of injustice
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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has named Richard Stamper interim dean of faculty. He has served as the school's associate dean of professional experiences and has been featured in a list of 300 Best Professors compiled by the Princeton Review.
May 30, 2012
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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. –- One of America's top college engineering educators, Richard E. Stamper, Ph.D., has been named to serve as Interim Dean of Faculty at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His one-year appointment will begin on July 1.
A 1985 Rose-Hulman alumnus, Stamper returned to his alma mater as a mechanical engineering faculty member in 1998. He has served the past two years as Associate Dean of Professional Experiences, leading the Rose-Hulman Ventures program, and formerly was head of the Department of Engineering Management. He earned the Rose-Hulman Dean's Outstanding Teacher Award in 2006, the Board of Trustees' Outstanding Scholar Award in 2004 and the Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russell Johnston Jr. Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award in 2001 from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
Recently, Stamper was among nine engineering professors profiled in the Princeton Review's The 300 Best Professors book, recognizing top teachers in more than 60 fields from 122 colleges and universities across the nation. Rose-Hulman had two professors in the engineering category.
"As a gifted educator, an outstanding scholar and a trusted colleague, Rick is ideally suited to step into this position. He has a passion for Rose-Hulman and its faculty, staff and students, and he will provide strong leadership for the 2012-13 academic year," stated Phillip Cornwell, Ph.D., Vice President for Academic Affairs.
In his new role, Stamper will oversee the academic department heads, the Associate Dean of the Faculty, the Associate Dean of Online Learning and Instructional Technology, the Registrar's office and the Learning Center.
Stamper's industrial experience includes positions as an area manager at Proctor & Gamble and as a design team leader at General Electric. He also spent one year at the Toshiba Appliance Engineering Laboratory in Yokohama, Japan as part of a technical exchange between GE and Toshiba. In 2004, he formed a small company to develop medical devices, and he holds two patents for halo orthoses, which are devices that are used to immobilize the cervical spine.
As a registered patent agent for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Stamper has served as an expert witness in both patent and product liability disputes. He is a registered professional engineer and is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the American Intellectual Property Association and ASEE.
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So after being diagnosed with gluten intolerance a year and a half ago I feel a ton better however I was still having episodes in which I felt like I ate gluten but everything I ate was gluten-free. After a really bad episode, I decided to try Soy free for a week to see if my intolerance was actually soy, not gluten. No such luck. Now I am trying gluten-free, SF and I feel a million times better, but I'm having quite the time trying to find gluten-free, SF foods at the local Fry's or Albertsons in my rural town of Yuma, AZ. I'm also having a ton of trouble because unlike every blogger that has gluten-free, SF recipies out there, I physically don't have the time, money or resources to make everything from scratch every day! I'm looking for a list of products that I can find at my local grocery store (not Whole Foods, Trader Joes, etc - they don't have any natural food stores here) that are naturally gluten-free & SF. I prefer not to spend a ton of money on shipping (as most online natural food stores do) so quick, easy meals that I can create from normal products would be helpful. I'm also not a vegetarian, but very picky with my meats so suggesting I buy meats and veggies doesn't help. Thats an obvious answer. Thanks so much for your help on this!!
gluten-free Sf In Rural Town - Kill Me Now.
Posted 01 May 2013 - 09:49 AM
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Posted 01 May 2013 - 10:33 AM
What is it you're looking for? Breads? Sunshine Herbs and More at 11274 S Fortuna Rd # K YUMA, AZ, 85367 (928) 342-1123
carries Udi's products. Their multi-grain bread is great. Their double chocolate muffins are UNBELIEVABLY good!
I'm sure that same store has plenty of other gluten-free products.
As a matter of fact, I googled health food stores, Yuma Arizona, and I think 5 of them came up. I'd bet if you do the same you will find there is one near you. If you go in and ask, they will probably be able to show you a large selection.
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gluten-free since June, 2011
It took 3 !/2 years but my intolerances to corn, soy, and everything else (except gluten) are gone!
Life is good!
Posted 01 May 2013 - 10:34 AM
The only gluten-free foods I buy are rice pasta and rice spaghetti.
Everything else is regular.
Just takes time to get your head round it.
Good luck, keep asking questions
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- Elimination diet using Atkins, 2003 – excluded wheat, caffeine, quorn. 2005, excluded sesame, alcohol
- Started diagnosis route April 2012, blood tests, endoscopy – said negative, gluten challenge, clearly something very wrong, had to stop after 3 weeks.
- Gluten Free, August 2012, Corn Free, September 2012. Removed most processed gluten free foods.
- Genetic testing, December 2012 – negative – Diagnosis – Non Celiac Gluten Intolerance (NCGI)
- Elimination diet, January 2013 – all of the above plus dairy, legumes, all grains, sugar, additives, white potatoes, soy. Reintroducing sloooowly now. Health improving.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein
Posted 01 May 2013 - 10:35 AM
Oh yeah, I meant to tell you that the Udi's bread and muffins have no soy in them. I too have an intolerance to both gluten and soy, plus CORN. And I live in a tiny town with one health food store. I have to drive at least 60 miles to find another store that carries gluten-free foods. I usually just go once a month and stock up.
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gluten-free since June, 2011
It took 3 !/2 years but my intolerances to corn, soy, and everything else (except gluten) are gone!
Life is good!
Posted 06 May 2013 - 10:05 AM
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Posted 06 May 2013 - 10:52 AM
Then learn how to make your own bread products at home. Make your own gluten-free/SF mix and bake bread.
I guess soy is more of the issue for me...I'm new to label reading for so and people have scared me half to death to eat anything store bought...I'm looking for normal items such as cereals, yogurts, any sort of easy meals that are not at a natural foods store. The natural foods stores here are like vitamin shops and only carry a few items. Everywhere I go anything gluten-free is ridiculously expensive. A loaf of gluten free bread in this town is at least $7 and I literally bought a bag of gluten-free pretzels that cost over $9. I can't afford to buy specialty items and have enough money to pay my rent...
I'm not sure I understood your statement about being picky about your meats and veggies. Do you not like them, already eat enough of them....?
If you want processed gluten-free/SF food it will be hard to find and expensive. I suggest you learn to cook the foods you want to eat (pretzels, crackers) and make your own substitutes. Try Living Without magazine/website for suggestions.
Cereal - versions of chex are gluten-free but I don't know about SF. You can make granola at home and freeze. I have luck using dairy products, jerky, and nuts as snacks. And popcorn...
No one has time to do this every day. Cook in bulk, refrigerate/freeze.
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Probable Endometriosis, in remission from childbirth since 2002.
Hashimoto's DX 2005.
Gluten-Free since 6/2011.
DH (and therefore Celiac) dx from ND.
Responsive to iodine withdrawal for DH (see quote, above).
Genetic tests reveal half DQ2, half DQ8 - I'm a weird bird!
Posted 06 May 2013 - 11:00 AM
Chex, as i have heard, get some of the added vitamins from soy.
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Posted 06 May 2013 - 11:51 AM
Just buy meats and veggies, and cook them!
We have several threads on meal ideas. If you want I can post them.
Here are a few to get you started.
Thread For gluten-free, Dairy, Soy, Corn And Nightshade Free Recipes
Super Easy Meal Ideas Anyone?
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Job 30:27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
Thyroid cyst and nodules, Lactose / casein intolerant. Diet positive, gene test pos, symptoms confirmed by Dr-head. My current bad list is: gluten, dairy, sulfites, coffee (the devil's brew), tea, Bug's Bunnies carrots, garbanzo beans of pain, soy- no joy, terrible turnips, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, and hard work. have a good day! :-) Paul
Posted 11 May 2013 - 03:31 AM
I would invest in a crock pot if you don't already have one. You can look up recipes and cook a big portion. It's so easy to throw it all in there and cook it for the day, you can have left overs for the rest of the week. A lot of times I do a lot of my food prep on Sundays so that I just have to go to the fridge and grab stuff throughout the week.
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Posted 11 May 2013 - 05:07 AM
I am gluten free, soy free and dairy free and have no issues eating at all. I just got a crock pot and I use it at least twice a week. I freeze up individual portions for quick meals. I get home late a lot and don't have much time either. the food cooks all day unattended, you don't need time for it.
I don't use the store bought products much, I use fresh whole foods that I get in my supermarket and know what I am eating. google gluten free crock pot recipes and the list is endless. then I just adjust it myself to take out dairy or soy.
it takes a small amount of effort, but worth it a million fold in the end.
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gluten free since 11/12
dairy and soy free since 1/13
chocolate free since 6/14
I miss my chocolate!!! but I'm not sick anymore, and that's what really matters
Posted 11 May 2013 - 09:46 AM
I am gluten free, low tyramine and low histamine, which translates to soy free, msg free, preservative free, artificial color free, I can't just eat eggs willy nilly, plus there are literally dozens of fruits, vegetables and meats I can't have. (I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff! )
I am also on a very very fixed and low grocery budget. I eat mostly fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables and meats and a select few boxed items such as Nature's Path cereals which are surprising well priced. I do "splurge" on things like flours and such and do all of my own baking with the exception of bread which I buy at Costco for $8 for two loaves. Crock pot cooking is quick and simple, and takes practically no time at all. You can whip up a meatloaf in minutes and just wait for it to cook.
What it will come down to, and I am sorry but this is the cold, hard truth, is that you will either pay out the nose for what you want, find time to make it, or go without. Those are your three options, there isn't some other magical secret that we all know. What I can say for sure though is that you will realize quickly if you try to find the time that cooking doesn't take nearly the amount of time you think it does and is well worth it.
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"You don't look sick or anything"
"Well you don't look stupid, looks can be deceiving."
Celiac DX Dec 2012
CRPS DX March 2014
Posted 11 May 2013 - 10:23 AM
Hi Bcanela,
You can try using Mission brand corn tortillas instead of bread. It is much cheaper and works fine. You can make small wraps with it. There are other kinds of gluten-free wraps available too. Rudi's and Trader Joe's both sell them. You need to keep them in the cooler as they don't have preservatives. If they are too stiff and crack, just rinse them quickly with water and heat them in a pan or a microwave. You may be able to find them locally or order them online. There is also a rice cake like product called Corn Thins. They are something like crackers, although not salty. Pretty brittle too but that's ok in a cracker.
It may take a while to adjust to eating gluten-free and eating mostly whole foods, and doing your own cooking. But after a while it gets to be routine and not a big deal. If gluten-free flours are too expensive you can grind your own. Buy some dried peas or rice or whatever you want to use and grind it up. You can also make gluten-free buns in a microwave, here's a thread on who to do it. I haven't tried this but you might even be able to make potato flour by grinding up potato flakes. If you think more along the lines of how people ate a 100 years or so ago, that is a good way to go. Back then people ate whole foods mostly and did their cooking at home. Unless they were living in a city, or had lots of moola. But most of the processed food products we buy nowadays in grocery stores didn't exist then. People got along fine with that situation (eating real food) then and we can now too. Just because it comes in a box and has millions of dollars of advertising behind it doesn't mean it is good for you.
Easy yummy bread in minutes
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Job 30:27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
Thyroid cyst and nodules, Lactose / casein intolerant. Diet positive, gene test pos, symptoms confirmed by Dr-head. My current bad list is: gluten, dairy, sulfites, coffee (the devil's brew), tea, Bug's Bunnies carrots, garbanzo beans of pain, soy- no joy, terrible turnips, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, and hard work. have a good day! :-) Paul
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