Gas sensitive porous silver-rutile high-temperature schottky diode on thermally oxidized titanium

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 237-243

  Hossein Babaei, Faramarz ^a   Abbaszadeh, Shiva ^a   Esfahani, Mehran Samiee ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Gas sensor; Schottky diode; Silver; Thermal oxidation; Titanium; Titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CHEMICAL SENSORS; DIODES; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; GAS ADSORPTION; GAS DETECTORS; GAS SENSING ELECTRODES; GASES; HYDROGEN; OHMIC CONTACTS; OXIDATION; OXIDE MINERALS; OXIDES; OXYGEN; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SENSORS; SINTERING; SUBSTRATES; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM OXIDES;

1 BUTANOLS; BARRIER HEIGHTS; CHEMICAL DETECTIONS; CLEAN AIRS; CONCENTRATION RANGES; DYNAMIC RANGES; ELECTRICAL CONTACTS; ELEVATED TEMPERATURES; GAS SENSOR; HIGH SENSITIVITIES; HIGH TEMPERATURES; METAL SUBSTRATES; NATIVE OXIDES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDES; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; OXYGEN ADSORPTIONS; POROUS SILVERS; REDUCING ATMOSPHERES; REVERSE CURRENTS; REVERSIBLE TRANSITIONS; SCHOTTKY DIODE; SILVER AGGREGATES; SILVER PARTICLES; SILVER WIRES; THERMAL OXIDATION; THERMALLY GROWN OXIDE LAYERS; THERMALLY OXIDIZED; TITANIUM METALS; TITANIUM SUBSTRATES;

SILVER;

EID: 60449090716     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.2006432     Document Type: Article

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