Flame-Spray-Made Undoped Zinc Oxide Films for Gas Sensing Applications
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Using zinc naphthenate dissolved in xylene as a precursor undoped ZnO nanopowders were synthesized by the flame spray pyrolysis technique. The average diameter and length of ZnO spherical and hexagonal particles were in the range of 5 to 20 nm, while ZnO nanorods were found to be 5-20 nm wide and 20-40 nm long, under 5/5 (precursor/oxygen) flame conditions. The gas sensitivity of the undoped ZnO nanopowders towards 50 ppm of NO(2), C(2)H(5)OH and SO(2) were found to be 33, 7 and 3, respectively. The sensors showed a great selectivity towards NO(2) at high working temperature (at 300 °C), while small resistance variations were observed for C(2)H(5)OH and SO(2), respectively.
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