NOx Gas Sensing Properties of ZnO-based Varistor-Type Gas Sensors

IEEJ Transactions on Sensors and Micromachines

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 130-135

  Shimizu, Yasuhiro ^a   Iwanaga, Tomoko ^a   Egashira, Makoto ^a   Takao, Yuji ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

breakdown voltage; NOx sensor; nonlinear I V characteristic; varistor; ZnO

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004362324     PISSN: 13418939     EISSN: 13475525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1541/ieejsmas.118.130     Document Type: Article

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