Humidity sensing properties of CdS nanoparticles synthesized by chemical bath deposition method

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 5606-5610

  Demir, Ramazan ^a,b   Okur, Salih ^c   Şeker, Mavişe ^c   Zor, Muhsin ^a  

^a ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ÇANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDS NANOPARTICLES; CDS THIN FILMS; CHEMICAL BATH DEPOSITION METHODS; CHEMICAL-BATH DEPOSITION; DESORPTION PROCESS; DESORPTION RATE; HUMIDITY SENSING PROPERTY; LANGMUIR MODELS; MOISTURE ADSORPTION; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE TECHNIQUES; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; RESPONSE CHARACTERISTIC; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEM; WATER VAPOR ADSORPTION;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEPOSITION; DESORPTION; GAS ADSORPTION; NANOPARTICLES; QUARTZ; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VAPOR DEPOSITION; WATER VAPOR; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 79955537169     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie1024276     Document Type: Article

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