Room temperature ammonia gas sensing using mixed conductor based TEMPOS structures

Sensors

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 6355-6370

  Saroch, Mamta ^a   Srivastava, Sunita ^a   Fink, Dietmar ^b   Chandra, Amita ^c  

^a PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Ammonia sensors; Etched ion tracks; Impedance measurements; TEMPOS structures

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA SENSORS; DETECTION SENSITIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCES; ETCHED ION TRACKS; FUNCTION OF FREQUENCY; IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; SWIFT HEAVY ION TRACKS; TEMPOS STRUCTURES;

AMMONIA; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; GAS SENSING ELECTRODES;

NANOELECTRONICS;

EID: 55249087681     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s8106355     Document Type: Article

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