Stable and Selective Humidity Sensing Using Stacked Black Phosphorus Flakes

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 9898-9905

  Yasaei, Poya ^a   Behranginia, Amirhossein ^a   Foroozan, Tara ^a   Asadi, Mohammad ^a   Kim, Kibum ^a,c   Khalili Araghi, Fatemeh ^b   Salehi Khojin, Amin ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Chungbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

black phosphorus; humidity sensing; liquid phase exfoliation; phosphorene; two dimensional (2D) materials

Indexed keywords

DRAIN CURRENT; ELECTROCATALYSIS; MOLECULES; PHOSPHORUS;

CHEMICAL DEGRADATION; HUMIDITY SENSING; LIQUID PHASE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHOSPHORENE; SENSING CHARACTERISTICS; TRACE-LEVEL DETECTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

HUMIDITY SENSORS;

ION; PHOSPHORUS; WATER VAPOR;

AIR; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; HUMIDITY; WATER VAPOR;

AIR; HUMIDITY; IONS; PHOSPHORUS; STEAM;

EID: 84945932659     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03325     Document Type: Article

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