Room-temperature chemiresistive effect of TiO2 -B nanowires to nitroaromatic and nitroamine explosives

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1352-1358

  Wang, Danling L ^a   Chen, Antao T ^a   Zhang, Qifeng F ^b   Cao, Guozhong Z ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge transfer; chemiresistive sensor; surface depletion layer; TiO 2 Bnanowires; trace explosives detector

Indexed keywords

CHEMIRESISTIVE SENSOR; CHEMIRESISTIVE SENSORS; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; EXPLOSIVE DETECTORS; FAST RESPONSE; GAS MOLECULES; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HYDROXYL GROUPS; LARGE SURFACE AREA; NITRO GROUP; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; OVER CURRENT; POWER CONSUMPTION; REVERSIBLE CHANGE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMICONDUCTING NANOWIRES; SENSOR PERFORMANCE; SURFACE DEPLETION LAYER; SURFACE STATE; TIO; TRACE EXPLOSIVES DETECTOR;

ADSORPTION; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CHARGE TRANSFER; CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC WIRE; ELECTRONEGATIVITY; EXPLOSIVES; ION EXCHANGE; MASS TRANSFER; MOLECULES; NANOWIRES; NITRATION;

SENSORS;

EID: 79955368726     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2010.2089618     Document Type: Article

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