Vapor-solid growth of p-Te/n-SnO2 hierarchical heterostructures and their enhanced room-temperature gas sensing properties

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 9150-9159

  Her, Yung Chiun ^a   Yeh, Bu Yu ^a   Huang, Sing Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

growth mechanism; hierarchical heterostructures; room temperature gas sensor; vapor phase process

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DETECTION; GAS DETECTORS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOTUBES; NANOWIRES;

GAS SENSING PROPERTIES; GROWTH MECHANISMS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SOURCE TEMPERATURE; THERMAL VAPOR TRANSPORT; VAPOR PHASE; VAPOR-SOLID GROWTH;

VAPORS;

EID: 84903523560     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5012518     Document Type: Article

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