On the nature of doping effect of methane in ZnO thin films deposited by RF-magnetron sputtering

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics - A comparative study of the effects of methane and hydrogen as reactive agents on the structural, optical, and electrical properties of ZnO...     

Wireless sensor networks based on modular arithmetic

The authors propose the method for data coding in wireless sensor networks (WSN) based on the transformation of the residue number system and multipath routing. It enables to utilize efficiently the bandwidth of communication channels as well as reduce message delivery time. It is explored the ant algorithm to search an optimal route of data transmission in the wireless sensor network. There is introduced a limitation for the communication radius of the wireless unit that shorts a number of the search decision modes and improves the accuracy of the wireless network simulation. The correspondent software is designed, it allowes exploring the dynamics of finding the optimal transmission path in WSN in case of different algorithm settings, and exploring the impact of the elite ants on the accuracy of the found path.     

Hydrogen sensors based on electrophoretically deposited Pd nanoparticles onto InP

Electrophoretic deposition of palladium nanoparticles prepared by the reverse micelle technique onto InP substrates is addressed. We demonstrate that the substrate pre-deposition treatment and the deposition conditions can extensively influence the morphology of the deposited palladium nanoparticle films. Schottky diodes based on these films show notably high values of the barrier height and of the rectification ratio giving evidence of a small degree of the Fermi level pinning. Moreover, electrical characteristics of these diodes are exceptionally sensitive to the exposure to gas mixtures with small hydrogen content.     

Semimetal graphite/ZnO Schottky diodes and their use for hydrogen sensing

A method is described for the fabrication of highly rectifying Schottky contacts on n-type ZnO (O and Zn polar face) single crystals, both bare and partially covered with Pt nanoparticles, coated with mechanically deposited colloidal graphite. A layer of Pt nanoparticles deposited by in situ pulsed electrophoretic deposition from isooctane colloid solutions is inserted between the graphite and the ZnO surface serves to dissociate hydrogen molecules in hydrogen sensing elements based on the highly rectifying Schottky barriers. The sensing elements are sensitive to gas mixtures with a low hydrogen concentration down to 10 ppm and show an extremely fast response above 1000 ppm.