Room Temperature Ammonia Gas Sensing Using MnO2-Modified ZnO Thick Film Resistors
Lalchand A. Patil, Lalita S. Sonawane, Dhanashri G. Patil
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DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2011.210150   PDF    HTML     6,349 Downloads   14,158 Views   Citations

Abstract

Pure ZnO thick film, prepared by screen-printing technique, was almost insensitive to NH3. Pure ZnO thick films were surface modified with MnO2 by dipping them into 0.01 M aqueous solution of manganese chloride (MnCl2) for different intervals of time and fired at 500℃ for 12 h. The grains of MnO2 would disperse around the grains of ZnO base material. The MnO2 modified ZnO films dipped for 30 min were observed to be sensitive and highly selective to NH3 gas at room temperature. An exceptional sensitivity was found to low concentration (50 ppm) of NH3 gas at room temperature and no cross sensitivity was observed even to high concentrations of other hazardous and polluting gases. The effects of surface microstructure and MnO2 concentrations on the sensitivity, selectivity, response and recovery of the sensor in the presence of NH3and other gases were studied and discussed. The better performance could be attributed to an optimum number of surface misfits in terms of MnO2 on the ZnO films.

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L. Patil, L. Sonawane and D. Patil, "Room Temperature Ammonia Gas Sensing Using MnO2-Modified ZnO Thick Film Resistors," Journal of Modern Physics, Vol. 2 No. 10, 2011, pp. 1215-1221. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2011.210150.

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