Scalable spray deposition process for high-performance carbon nanotube gas sensors

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 174-181

  Abdellah, Alaa ^a   Abdelhalim, Ahmed ^a   Horn, Markus ^a   Scarpa, Giuseppe ^a   Lugli, Paolo ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube (CNT) thin films; full CNT; gas sensor; solution processing; spray deposition

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; CARBON NANOTUBE GAS SENSOR; CARBON NANOTUBES (CNT); DEVICE PERFORMANCE; FULL CNT; ROOM-TEMPERATURE OPERATION; SOLUTION-PROCESSING; SPRAY DEPOSITION;

CARBON NANOTUBES; COSTS; DEPOSITS; GAS DETECTORS; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS;

CHEMICAL SENSORS;

EID: 84874994245     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2013.2238248     Document Type: Article

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