Worm like zinc oxide nanostructures as efficient LPG sensors

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 190, Issue , 2013, Pages 168-175

  Dhingra, Mansi ^a   Singh, N K ^a   Shrivastava, Sadhna ^b   Kumar, P Senthil ^a   Annapoorni, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Microstructure; Sensing; ZnO

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT THICKNESS; ELECTRICAL METHODS; LPG SENSORS; MULTI-LAYERED FILMS; NUMBER OF LAYERS; OPTIMUM TEMPERATURE; OXIDE NANOSTRUCTURES; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; SENSING; SENSING CHARACTERISTICS; SPIN-COATING METHOD; ZINC OXIDE (ZNO); ZNO; ZNO THIN FILM;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; MICROSTRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOL-GELS; THIN FILMS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84871655074     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2012.11.015     Document Type: Article

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