Toward the nanoscopic "electronic nose": hydrogen vs carbon monoxide discrimination with an array of individual metal oxide nano- and mesowire sensors.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
The array of chemiresistors made of individual pristine SnO2, surface doped (Ni)-SnO2 nanowires, and TiO2 and In2O3 mesoscopic whiskers was fabricated on a Si/SiO2 wafer. Their conductance was measured under pulses of H2 and CO reducing gases in oxygen as background gas. The nanostructures were shown to be n-type semiconductors possessing high sensitivity to the target gases. Following the "electronic nose" concept, correlation analysis of response of three-chemiresistor array is shown to be sufficient to discriminate between H2 and CO signals.
Medical subject headings
- Biosensing Techniques
- Carbon Dioxide
- Electrochemistry
- Hydrogen
- Microelectrodes
- Nanotechnology
- Tin Compounds