Effect of grain-size on the ethanol vapor sensing properties of room-temperature sputtered ZnO thin films

Microchimica Acta

Volumn 182, Issue 11-12, 2015, Pages 1991-1999

  Tamvakos, Athanasios ^a   Calestani, Davide ^b   Tamvakos, Dimitrios ^a   Mosca, Roberto ^b   Pullini, Daniele ^a   Pruna, Alina ^c  

^a CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT   (Italy)

^b IMEM CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Ethanol; Grain size; Sensing; Sputtering; ZnO

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938289616     PISSN: 00263672     EISSN: 14365073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00604-015-1539-z     Document Type: Article

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