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Sensors and Materials, Volume 30, Number 5(2) (2018)
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pp. 1123-1132
S&M1569 Research Paper of Special Issue
https://doi.org/10.18494/SAM.2018.1836
Published: May 31, 2018

Nitric Oxide Gas Sensors Using Multilayered Thin Film with Interspaces [PDF]

Akihiro Shimizu, Tsubasa Morita, Tomiharu Yamaguchi, and Kazuhiro Hara

(Received December 4, 2017; Accepted April 10, 2018)

Keywords: NO gas sensor, WO3 thin film, Ag catalyst, interspace, multiple-layered configuration

Nitric oxide (NO) is an air pollutant known to adversely affect the environment, humans, and other living organisms. Low-level NO gas is also created by human bodies and emitted as a component of exhaled breath and skin gas under some health conditions. Therefore, there is a strong demand for the monitoring of NO gas concentration. In this paper, we present novel NO gas sensors that have been developed using multilayered WO3-based thin films with interspaces. Ag doping into a WO3 thin film is effective in increasing the sensitivity to NO. Multilayered thin-film sensors with interspaces successfully enhance both sensitivity and selectivity to NO. The developed sensor with quadruple-layered sensing films can detect as low as 0.5 ppm NO gas with good selectivity at an operating temperature of 290 ℃. The response and recovery times are 81 and 138 s, respectively, for the double-layered sensor, while its sensitivity is lower than that of the quadruple-layered sensor. Thus, the sensors are promising as a portable and inexpensive NO sensing device in various application fields such as environmental monitoring and health diagnosis.

Corresponding author: Tomiharu Yamaguchi


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Akihiro Shimizu, Tsubasa Morita, Tomiharu Yamaguchi, and Kazuhiro Hara, Nitric Oxide Gas Sensors Using Multilayered Thin Film with Interspaces, Sens. Mater., Vol. 30, No. 5, 2018, p. 1123-1132.



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