Noise spectroscopy of gas sensors

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 786-790

  Aroutiounian, Vladimir M ^a   Mkhitaryan, Zara H ^a   Shatveryan, Arkady A ^a   Gasparyan, Ferdinand V ^a   Ghulinyan, Mher Zh ^b   Pavesi, Lorenzo ^b   Kish, Laszlo B ^c   Granqvist, Claes Göran ^d  

^a YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Carbon monoxide; Current voltage characteristics; Gas sensor; Noise spectral density; Porous silicon (PS); Selectivity; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON MONOXIDE; CHEMICAL SENSORS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CURING; DRYING; NONMETALS; SILICON; SILICON WAFERS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; STRUCTURAL METALS;

(100) SILICON; DRY AIR; GAS SENSORS; HOOGE NOISE PARAMETER; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE (1/F NOISE); METAL STRUCTURES; NOISE SPECTROSCOPY; SILICON SINGLE CRYSTALS;

POROUS SILICON;

EID: 44649105718     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.923184     Document Type: Article

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