Achieving a good life time in a vertical-organic-diode gas sensor

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 16287-16295

  Dai, Ming Zhi ^a   Chen, Yen Ho ^a   Chuang, Ming Yen ^a   Zan, Hsiao Wen ^a   Meng, Hsin Fei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Gas sensor; Polythiophene; Solid state sensors

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CHEMICAL SENSORS; DIODES; GAS DETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

ACTIVE SENSING; AMMONIA MOLECULES; AMMONIA SENSORS; CURRENT SIMULATION; DETECTION LIMITS; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; POLY-THIOPHENE; VERTICAL CHANNELS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

EID: 84907485744     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140916287     Document Type: Article

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