Thickness Dependency of Thin-Film Samaria-Doped Ceria for Oxygen Sensing

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 217-224

  Sanghavi, Rahul ^a   Prasad, Shalini ^a   Nandasiri, Manjula ^b,c   Kuchibhatla, Satyanarayana ^b   Varga, Tamas ^b   Nachimuthu, Ponnusamy ^b   Engelhard, Mark H ^b   Shutthanandan, Vaithiyalingam ^b   Thevuthasan, Suntharampillai ^b   Jiang, Weilin ^b,d   Kayani, Asghar ^c  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hysteresis; oxygen sensor; samaria doped ceria (SDC); thin film

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008040120     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2010.2050766     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Y. Xu and X. Zhou, “Oxygen sensors based on semiconducting metal oxides: An overview,” Sens. Act. B: Chem., vol. 65, pp. 2–4, 2000.
2. E. Ivers-Tiffee et al., “Principles of solid state oxygen sensors for lean combustion gas control,” Electrochimica Acta, vol. 47, pp. 807–814, 2001.
3. S. V. Manorama et al., “On the platinum sensitization of nanosized cerium dioxide oxygen sensors,” Sens. Act. B, Chem., vol. 89, pp. 299–304, 2003.
4. 2 thick and thin films,” Sens. Act. B, Chem., vol. 4, pp. 393–399, 1991.
5. E. B. Varhegyi et al., “Auger and SIMS study of segregation and corrosion behaviour of some semiconducting oxide gas-sensor materials,” Sens. Act. B, Chem., vol. 19, pp. 569–572, 1994.
6. N. Izu et al., “Fast response of resistive-type oxygen gas sensors based on nanosized ceria powder,” Sens. Act. B, Chem., vol. 93, pp. 449–453, 2003.
7. 2 (x = 0.05, 0.10) thick films in propane combustion gas,” Sens. Act. B, Chem., vol. 130, pp. 105–109, 2008.
8. H. Meixner et al., “Thin-film gas sensors based on semiconducting metal oxides,” Sens. Act. B, Chem., vol. 23, pp. 119–125, 1995.
9. Z. Q. Yu et al., “Conductivity of oriented samaria-doped ceria thin films grown by oxygen-plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy,” Electrochem. Solid-State Lett., vol. 11, pp. B76–B78, 2008.
10. S. Gupta et al., “Influence of samaria doping on the resistance of ceria thin films and its implications to the planar oxygen sensing devices,” Sens. Act. B, Chem., vol. 139, pp. 380–386, 2009.
11. N. Q. Minh and T. Takahashi, “Electrolyte,” in Science and Technology of Ceramic Fuel Cells. Oxford, U.K.: Elsevier, 1995, pp. 69–116.
12. J. C. Hsieh et al., “Response characteristics of lead phthalocyanine gas sensor: Effects of film thickness and crystal morphology,” Thin Solid Films, vol. 322, pp. 98–103, 1998.
13. J. F. Chang et al., “The effects of thickness and operation temperature on ZnO:Al thin film CO gas sensor,” Sens. Act. B, Chem., vol. 84, pp. 258–264, 2002.
14. H.-Y. Wang and J. B. Lando, “Gas-sensing mechanism of phthalocyanine langmuir-blodgett films,” Langmuir, vol. 10, pp. 790–796, 2002.
15. G. Korotcenkov et al., “Kinetics of indium oxide-based thin film gas sensor response: The role of “redox” and adsorption/desorption processes in gas sensing effects,” Thin Solid Films, vol. 515, pp. 3987–3996, 2007.
16. R. K. Sharma and M. C. Bhatnagar, “Improvement of the oxygen gas sensitivity in doped TiO2 thick films,” Sens. Act. B, Chem., vol. 56, pp. 215–219, 1999.
17. R. Moos et al., “Materials for temperature independent resistive oxygen sensors for combustion exhaust gas control,” Sens. Act. B, Chem., vol. 67, pp. 178–183, 2000.
18. Electrochemistry of Zirconia Gas Sensors, S. Zhuiykov, Ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC.
19. N. Izu et al., “Evaluation of response characteristics of resistive oxygen sensors based on porous cerium oxide thick film using pressure modulation method,” Sens. Act. B, Chem., vol. 113, pp. 207–213, 2006.
20. H. L. Tuller, “Ionic conduction in nanocrystalline materials,” Solid State Ion., vol. 131, pp. 143–157, 2000.
21. R. Ramamoorthy et al., “Oxygen sensors: Materials, methods, designs and applications,” J. Mat. Sci., vol. 38, pp. 4271–4282, 2003.