Environmental gas and light sensing using ZnO nanowires

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 368-374

  Kiasari, Nima Mohseni ^a   Soltanian, Saeid ^a   Gholamkhass, Bobak ^a   Servati, Peyman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon monoxide (CO) sensing; Dielectrophoresis (DEP); Gas sensor; Oxygen; Relative humidity (RH); ultraviolet (UV) detector; UV activated sensing; zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowire (NW)

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CARBON MONOXIDE; CHEMICAL SENSORS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTROPHORESIS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; IRRADIATION; NANOWIRES; NEGATIVE IONS; OXYGEN;

ELECTRON-HOLE GENERATION; NANOWIRE (NW); ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PATTERNED ELECTRODE; SENSITIVITY INCREASE; ULTRA-VIOLET; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATIONS; UV ACTIVATED SENSING;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84897876976     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2014.2305621     Document Type: Article

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