Improved Recovery Time and Sensitivity to H and NH at Room Temperature with SnO Vertical Nanopillars on ITO

Overview

Journal Sci Rep

Specialty Science

Date 2018 Jul 4

PMID 29968779

Citations 4

Authors

L DArsie

V Alijani

S T Suran Brunelli

F Rigoni

G Di Santo

M Caputo

M Panighel

S Freddi

L Sangaletti

A Goldoni

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Abstract

Nanostructured SnO is a promising material for the scalable production of portable gas sensors. To fully exploit their potential, these gas sensors need a faster recovery rate and higher sensitivity at room temperature than the current state of the art. Here we demonstrate a chemiresistive gas sensor based on vertical SnO nanopillars, capable of sensing < 5 ppm of H at room temperature and 10 ppt at 230 °C. We test the sample both in vacuum and in air and observe an exceptional improvement in the performance compared to commercially available gas sensors. In particular, the recovery time for sensing NH at room temperature is more than one order of magnitude faster than a commercial SnO sensor. The sensor shows an unique combination of high sensitivity and fast recovery time, matching the requirements on materials expected to foster widespread use of portable and affordable gas sensors.

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