Scaling properties of gold nanocluster chemiresistor sensors

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1403-1413

  Ancona, Mario G ^b   Snow, Arthur W ^b   Foos, Edward E ^b   Kruppa, Walter ^a,b   Bass, Robert ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

1 f noise; Chemical vapor sensing; Chemiresistor; Nanoclusters; Scaling

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR SENSING; CHEMIRESISTOR; NANOCLUSTERS; SCALING PROPERTIES;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; GOLD; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; REDUCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CHEMICAL SENSORS;

EID: 33845644646     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2006.884447     Document Type: Article

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