Fabrication and characterization of nano-sized SrTiO3-based oxygen sensor for near room-temperature operation

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 825-831

  Hu, Ying ^a,b   Tan, Ooi Klang ^a,b   Cao, Wenqing ^a,b,c,d   Zhu, Weiguang ^a,b,e,f,g,h  

^a IEEE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^e Sch of Elec and Electron Eng   (Singapore)

^f AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY   (United States)

^g AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^h American Ceramic Society ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Annealing temperature; Humidity effect; Low tem perature semiconducting oxygen gas sensors; Nano sized SrTiO3

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY EFFECTS; LOW TEMPERATURE SEMICONDUCTING OXYGEN GAS SENSORS; NANOSIZED SITIO3;

BALL MILLING; CHARACTERIZATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

OXYGEN SENSORS;

EID: 27744519463     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2004.841452     Document Type: Article

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