A hydrogen gas sensor fabricated from polythiophene nanofibers deposited on a 36°YX LiTaO3 layered surface acoustic wave transducer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7268, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Al Mashat, Laith ^a   Tran, Henry D ^b   Kaner, Richard B ^b   Arsat, Rashidah ^a   Kalantar Zadeh, Kourosh ^a   Wlodarski, Wojtek ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conducting polymers; Gas sensor; Polymer nanostructures; Polythiophene nanofibers; SAW sensors

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRA-RED SPECTROSCOPIES; FREQUENCY SHIFTS; GAS SENSOR; HYDROGEN GAS; HYDROGEN GAS SENSORS; LAYERED SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES; POLYMER NANOSTRUCTURES; POLYTHIOPHENE NANOFIBERS; REACTION MIXTURES; ROOM TEMPERATURES; SAW SENSORS; SEM; SENSOR PERFORMANCE; SENSOR RESPONSE; SYNTHETIC AIRS; TEMPLATE-FREE METHODS;

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; ACOUSTOELECTRIC EFFECTS; CONCRETE BRIDGES; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONDUCTIVE PLASTICS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; GAS DETECTORS; GASES; HYDROGEN; INTELLIGENT STRUCTURES; NANOFIBERS; NANOSTRUCTURES; ORGANIC CONDUCTORS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; POLYMERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THIOPHENE;

SENSORS;

EID: 62449287296     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.810616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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