A humidity sensing organic-inorganic composite for environmental monitoring

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 3615-3624

  Ahmad, Zubair ^a   Zafar, Qayyum ^a   Sulaiman, Khaulah ^a   Akram, Rizwan ^b   Karimov, Khasan S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b QASSIM UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c GIK INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Composite film; Humidity sensor; Physical vapor deposition; Scanning electron micrograph

Indexed keywords

CLEANED GLASS SUBSTRATES; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERIZATION; ELECTRICAL PARAMETER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MAXIMUM SENSITIVITY; MODE OF OPERATIONS; ORGANIC-INORGANIC COMPOSITE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROGRAPHS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPOSITE FILMS; DEPOSITION; ELECTRODES; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SUBSTRATES; VAPORS;

HUMIDITY SENSORS;

EID: 84875148078     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130303615     Document Type: Article

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