An excellent room-temperature hydrogen sensor based on titania nanotube-arrays |
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Authors: | Kansong Chen Kun Xie Xinran FengShengfu Wang Rui HuHaoshuang Gu Yang Li |
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Affiliation: | Faculty of physics and Electronic Technology, Key Laboratory of Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials and Devices of Hubei Province, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, PR China |
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Abstract: | Hydrogen sensors have been fabricated from highly ordered TiO2 nanotube arrays through anodization of a Ti substrate in an ethylene glycol solution containing NH4F. The vertically oriented TiO2 nanotube arrays containing Pt electrodes exhibit an ability to detect a wide-range of hydrogen concentrations at room temperature. On exposure to 2000 ppm (parts per million) hydrogen, the sensors exhibit seven orders of magnitude change in resistance with a response time of 13 s at room temperature. The TiO2 nanotube arrays sensor equipped with Pt electrodes exhibited a diode-type current–voltage (I–V) characteristic in air, but nearly ohmic behavior in hydrogen balanced with argon. A significant response to hydrogen was observed without the presence of oxygen in the base atmosphere. The response of two kinds of sensors with either Pt or Pt/Ti electrodes to 500 ppm hydrogen was measured and the results suggested that the excellent hydrogen sensing properties in air resulted primarily from the variation of the Schottky barrier height at the Pt/TiO2 interface. |
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Keywords: | Room temperature Hydrogen sensor TiO2 nanotube arrays Sensing mechanism |
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