Journal
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING B-SOLID STATE MATERIALS FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
Volume 118, Issue 1-3, Pages 44-49Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.mseb.2004.12.061
Keywords
gas sensor; thick films; ZnO and ZnFe2O4
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Zinc and iron oxide thick film gas sensors were fabricated using screen-printing technology on glass substrates that had silver interdigitated electrodes. The sensor was used to detect methanol, ethanol and propanol with a concentration range of 0-8000ppm. Using the formula to calculate a change in resistance, Delta R = R-gas - R-air. resistance was seen to increase linearly alongside increasing concentrations of the gas vapours. The sensor showed the highest sensitivity to propanol followed by ethanol and methanol when the operating temperature was 25 degrees C. The sensitivities (slope of graphs) of methanol, ethanol and propanol changed from 0.07, 0.5, and 3.54 to 0.075, 0.115, and 0.5 ohm/ppm when the operating temperature was increased from 25 to 50 degrees C. The response/recovery times of the sensor for 4000 ppm at room temperature were, 10/10, 15/20 and 40/70 s for methanol, ethanol and propanol, respectively. X-ray diffraction (XRD) was used to examine the final composition of the film, while scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to examine the final composition of grain size. The final composition has two phases: ZnO and ZnFeO4. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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