The transition in hydrogen sensing behavior in noncontinuous palladium films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Kiefer, Thomas ^a   Villanueva, Luis Guillermo ^a   Fargier, Frédéric ^b   Favier, Frédéric ^b   Brugger, Jürgen ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUOUS FILMS; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCES; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; HYDROGEN EXPOSURE; HYDROGEN SENSOR; HYDROGEN-SENSING; MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS; NANO-GAP; PALLADIUM FILMS; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; SEMI-CONTINUOUS; THERMAL-ANNEALING; ULTRA-THIN;

PALLADIUM; SOLVENTS; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

HYDROGEN;

EID: 77957131473     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3491263     Document Type: Article

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