Vertical Mode Gas Sensing Performance of TiO2 Nanotube Array by Tuning of Surface Area and Carrier Transport Length

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5919-5926

  Bhowmik, Basanta ^a   Fecht, Hans J ^b   Bhattacharyya, Partha ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

acetone sensing performance; metal insulatormetal (MIM) device; nanotube length variation; TiO2 nanotube (NT)

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; CHEMICAL DETECTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; GAS DETECTORS; GAS SENSING ELECTRODES; GASES; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; NANOTUBES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TUNING;

ACETONE SENSING; ADSORPTION/DESORPTION; METAL-INSULATOR-METAL STRUCTURES; NANOTUBE LENGTHS; OXIDE NANOSTRUCTURES; TIO2 NANOTUBE ARRAYS; TIO2 NANOTUBES; VERTICAL ELECTRON TRANSPORT;

MIM DEVICES;

EID: 84940069493     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2449897     Document Type: Article

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