Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
Volume 296, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2019.126684
Keywords
Vertical heterostructure diode; Gas sensor; Reduced graphene oxide; Schottky barrier height
Funding
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program of Sungkyunkwan University
- Nano Material Technology Development Program [2015M3A7B7044548]
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
- GRRC program of Gyeonggi province [GRRC Sungkyunkwan 2017-B04]
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A vertical heterostructure diode (VHD) based on a van der Waals heterojunction between reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and Al0.3Ga0.7N/GaN/sapphire was fabricated for use in the chemical sensing of toxic gases. Target gases interacted with the atomically thin rGO layer, which served as a contact and sensing material; this interaction induced a change in the forward bias current of the VHD through modulation of the effective Schottky barrier height (SBH). The VHD gas sensor showed fast, repeatable, reproducible, recoverable, and stable room-temperature (RT)-operable gas-sensing performance for toxic gases, including nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and ammonia. The variations of the SBH, ideality factor and series resistance of the VHD gas sensor upon gas exposure were systematically analyzed by studying the changes in the current transport mechanism through the vertical junction due to the presence of various gases. The analysis revealed that the variation of the SBH upon gas exposure is the primary sensing mechanism of the VHD gas sensor. The VHD device has great promise as the fundamental structure of simple, low-power, low-noise, and RT-operable chemical sensors.
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