Journal
PHYSICA E-LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS & NANOSTRUCTURES
Volume 41, Issue 2, Pages 258-263Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physe.2008.07.007
Keywords
Mixed SnO2-TiO2; Carbon nanotubes; Gas sensor
Funding
- Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) [405006]
- Third Italian-Vietnamese Executive Programme of Co-operation in ST
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TiO2 and SnO2 are tile well-known sensing materials with a good thermal stability of tile former and a high sensitivity of the latter. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have also gas sensing ability at room temperature. CNTs-included SnO2/TiO2 material was a new exploration to combine the advantages of three kinds of materials for gas-sensing property. In this work, a uniform SnO2/TiO2 solution was prepared by the sol-gel process with the ratio 3:7 in mole. The CNTs with contents in the range of 0.001-0.5 wt% were dispersed in a mixed SnO2/TiO2 matrix by using an iminersion-probe ultrasonic. The SnO2-TiO2 and the CNTs-included SnO2-TiO2 thin films were fabricated by the sol-gel spin-coating method over Pt-interdigitated electrode for gas-sensor device fabrication and they were heat created at 500 degrees C for 30 min. FE-SEM and XRD characterizations indicated that the inclusion of CNTs did not affect file particle size as well as the morphology of the thin film. The sensing properties of all as-fabricated sensors were investigated with different ethanol concentrations and operating temperatures. An interesting sensing characteristic of mixed SnO2/TiO2 sensors was that there was a two-peak shape in the sensitivity versus operating temperature curve. At tile region of low operating temperature (below 280 degrees C), the hybrid sensors show improvement of sensing property. This result gives a prospect of the stable gas sensors with working temperatures below 250 degrees C. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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