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Low‐Temperature Growth of SnO2 Nanorod Arrays and Tunable n–p–n Sensing Response of a ZnO/SnO2 Heterojunction for Exclusive Hydrogen Sensors |
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| Authors: | Hui Huang Hua Gong Chee Lap Chow Jun Guo Timothy John White Man Siu Tse Ooi Kiang Tan |
| Affiliation: | 1. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798 Singapore;2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore;3. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore, Centre for Advanced Microscopy, Australian National University, Sullivan's Creek Road, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia |
| Abstract: | Uniform SnO2 nanorod arrays have been deposited at low temperature by plasma‐enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). ZnO surface modification is used to improve the selectivity of the SnO2 nanorod sensor to H2 gas. The ZnO‐modified SnO2 nanorod sensor shows a normal n‐type response to 100 ppm CO, NH3, and CH4 reducing gas whereas it exhibits concentration‐dependent n–p–n transitions for its sensing response to H2 gas. This abnormal sensing behavior can be explained by the formation of n‐ZnO/p‐Zn‐O‐Sn/n‐SnO2 heterojunction structures. The gas sensors can be used in highly selective H2 sensing and this study also opens up a general approach for tailoring the selectivity of gas sensors by surface modification. |
| Keywords: | nanorods surface modification structure‐property relationships n– p– n transitions sensors |