Ag doped WO3 nanomaterials as relative humidity sensor

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2911-2918

  Pandey, N K ^a   Tiwari, Karunesh ^a   Roy, Akash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

Author keywords

Annealing; humidity sensor; silver metal; tungsten oxide

Indexed keywords

APPLYING PRESSURE; AVERAGE GRAIN SIZE; AVERAGE SENSITIVITIES; CYCLIC OPERATION; HUMIDITY SENSING; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SENSING ELEMENTS; SILVER METAL; SOFT-CHEMICAL ROUTE; TUNGSTEN OXIDE;

AGGLOMERATION; ANNEALING; CRYSTALLITE SIZE; HUMIDITY SENSORS; ORE PELLETS; PELLETIZING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TUNGSTEN; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

SILVER;

EID: 80055051782     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2148115     Document Type: Article

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