Development of a hydrogen gas sensor using a double saw resonator system at room temperature

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 4749-4765

  Yunusa, Zainab ^a,b   Hamidon, Mohd Nizar ^a   Ismail, Alyani ^a   Isa, Maryam Mohd ^a   Yaacob, Mohd Hanif ^a   Rahmanian, Saeed ^c   Ibrahim, Siti Azlida ^a,d   Shabaneh, Arafat A A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b BAYERO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^c Department of Computer and Communications Universiti Putra Malaysia ^*  (Malaysia)

^d MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Double SAW resonator; Hydrogen gas sensor; Polyaniline and carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RESONATORS; ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; CARBON; GAS DETECTORS; GAS SENSING ELECTRODES; HYDROGEN; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POLYANILINE; RESONANCE; RESONATORS; YARN;

FUNCTIONALIZED MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; GAS SENSING APPLICATIONS; HYDROGEN GAS SENSORS; MINIMUM DETECTION LIMITS; PIEZOELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; POLYANILINE NANOFIBERS; SAW RESONATORS; SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 84928678065     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150304749     Document Type: Article

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