Room-temperature semiconductor gas sensor based on nonstoichiometric tungsten oxide nanorod film

Yong Shin Kim, Seung Chul Ha, Kyuwon Kim, Haesik Yang, Sung Yool Choi, Youn Tae Kim, Joon T. Park, Chang Hoon Lee, Jiyoung Choi, Jungsun Paek, Kwangyeol Lee

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Abstract

Porous tungsten oxide films were deposited onto a sensor substrate with a Si bulk-micromachined hotplate, by drop-coating isopropyl alcohol solution of highly crystalline tungsten oxide (W O2.72) nanorods with average 75 nm length and 4 nm diameter. The temperature-dependent gas sensing characteristics of the films have been investigated over the mild temperature range from 20 to 250 °C. While the sensing responses for ammonia vapor showed increase in electrical conductivity at temperatures above 150 °C as expected for n -type metal oxide sensors, they exhibited the opposite behavior of unusual conductivity decrease below 100 °C. Superb sensing ability of the sensors at room temperature in conjunction with their anomalous conductivity behavior might be attributed to unique nanostructural features of very thin, nonstoichiometric W O2.72.

Original languageEnglish
Article number213105
Pages (from-to)1-3
Number of pages3
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume86
Issue number21
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005 May 23

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the NFL and basic research programs of the ETRI and in part by the national research program for the 0.1 Terabit Non-volatile Memory Development sponso-7ed by Korea Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy. KL thanks the Korea Research Foundation Grant (KRF-2004–003–C00116).

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  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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