Transient characterization techniques for resistive metal-oxide gas sensors

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 12-26

  Varpula, Aapo ^a   Novikov, Sergey ^a   Haarahiltunen, Antti ^a   Kuivalainen, Pekka ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Conduction model; Granular semiconductor; Metal oxide gas sensor; Surface state model; Transient

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES; CHEMICAL VAPOURS; CLEAN AIR; CONDUCTION MODELS; ELECTRONIC TRAPPING; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GRANULAR SEMICONDUCTOR; HUMID AIR; ISOPROPYL ALCOHOLS; METAL OXIDE GAS SENSORS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA; PULSING SYSTEM; RATE EQUATIONS; REDUCING GAS; RESISTANCE COEFFICIENTS; STEP CHANGES; SURFACE-STATE MODEL; SYSTEM-BASED; TIME CONSTANTS; TIME DOMAIN; TRANSIENT MODEL;

ACETONE; ASSOCIATED GAS; CHEMICAL SENSORS; DRY CLEANING; EXPERIMENTS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); GAS DETECTORS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; IONIZATION OF GASES; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; POWER QUALITY; RATE CONSTANTS; VAPORS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052332081     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2011.05.059     Document Type: Article

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