Adsorption response of semiconductor gas sensors with the use of a portable flow-through monitor

Field Analytical Chemistry and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 357-366

  Di Benedetto, Lucy T ^a   Alexander, Peter W ^a   Hibbert, D Brynn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ethanol vapor analysis; Flow through gas vapor analyzer; Langmuir model; Portable (battery powered); Tin oxide gas sensors

Indexed keywords

EID: 2742544303     PISSN: 1086900X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6521(199712)1:6<357::aid-fact5>3.3.co;2-9     Document Type: Article

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