Decoration of CuO NWs Gas Sensor with ZnO NPs for Improving NO 2 Sensing Characteristics.

Publisher: MDPI Country of Publication: Switzerland NLM ID: 101204366 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1424-8220 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 14248220 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Sensors (Basel) Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE; MEDLINE

Original Publication: Basel, Switzerland : MDPI, c2000-

This paper introduces a method for improving the sensitivity to NO 2 gas of a p-type metal oxide semiconductor gas sensor. The gas sensor was fabricated using CuO nanowires (NWs) grown through thermal oxidation and decorated with ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) using a sol-gel method. The CuO gas sensor with a ZnO heterojunction exhibited better sensitivity to NO 2 gas than the pristine CuO gas sensor. The heterojunction in CuO/ZnO gas sensors caused a decrease in the width of the hole accumulation layer (HAL) and an increase in the initial resistance. The possibility to influence the width of the HAL helped improve the NO 2 sensing characteristics of the gas sensor. The growth morphology, atomic composition, and crystal structure of the gas sensors were analyzed using field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction, respectively.

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2019M3F2A1073385 National Research Foundation of Korea

Keywords: CuO; ZnO NPs; gas sensors; heterojunction; nanowires; sol-gel

Date Created: 20210403 Latest Revision: 20240331

20250114

PMC8002490

10.3390/s21062103

33802767