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ArticleJournal of physics D: Applied physics2021

Broadband dielectric spectroscopic detection of volatile organic compounds with ZnO nanorod gas sensors.

Papa K Amoah, Pengtao Lin, Helmut Baumgart, Rhonda R Franklin, Yaw S Obeng

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Article in Journal of physics D: Applied physics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Papa K AmoahDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA 23529, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-3328-2692
Pengtao LinDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA 23529, United States of America.
Helmut BaumgartDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA 23529, United States of America.
Rhonda R FranklinDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, 200 Union Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States of America.
Yaw S ObengPhysical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-4880-1689

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metal-oxide (MO) semiconductor gas sensors based on chemical resistivity necessarily involve making electrical contacts to the sensing materials. These contacts are imperfect and introduce errors into the measurements. In this paper, we demonstrate the feasibility of using contactless broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS)-based metrology in gas monitoring that avoids distortions in the reported resistivity values due to probe use, and parasitic errors (i.e. tool-measurand interactions). Specifically, we show how radio frequency propagation characteristics can be applied to study discrete processes on MO sensing material, such as zinc oxide (i.e. ZnO) surfaces, when exposed to a redox-active gas. Specifically, we have used BDS to investigate the initial oxidization of ZnO gas sensing material in air at temperatures below 200 °C, and to show that the technique affords new mechanistic insights that are inaccessible with the traditional resistance-based measurements.

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broadband dielectric spectroscopymicrowavesnanorodsVOCZnO

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PMID34092809
PMCPMC8174144

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