Semiconductor Gas Sensors

Herausgegeben:Jaaniso, Raivo; Tan, Ooi Kiang

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Semiconductor gas sensors have a wide range of applications in safety, process control, environmental monitoring, indoor or cabin air quality and medical diagnosis. This important book summarises recent research on basic principles, new materials and emerging technologies in this essential field.

The first part of the book reviews the underlying principles and sensing mechanisms for n- and p-type oxide semiconductors, introduces the theory for nanosize materials and describes the role of electrode-semiconductor interfaces. The second part of the book describes recent developments in silicon carbide- and graphene-based gas sensors, wide bandgap semiconductor gas sensors and micromachined and direct thermoelectric gas sensors. Part 3 discusses the use of nanomaterials for gas sensing, including metal oxide nanostructures, quantum dots, single-alled carbon nanotubes and porous silicon. The final part of the book surveys key applications in environmental monitoring, detecting chemical warfare agents and monitoring gases such as carbon dioxide.

Semiconductor gas sensors is a valuable reference work for all those involved in gas monitoring, including those in the building industry, environmental engineers, defence and security specialists and researchers in this field.

Produktdetails

• Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials
• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology / Woodhead Publishing
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2013-0-16199-5
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 155mm x 234mm
• Gewicht: 990g
• ISBN-13: 9780857092366
• Artikelnr.: 36935233

Autorenporträt

Raivo Jaaniso is a Senior Scientist in the Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, Estonia.

Ooi Kiang Tan is Professor of Microelectronics in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

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Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Fundamentals of semiconductor gas sensors

Abstract:

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Classification of semiconductor gas sensors

1.3 Resistor type sensors: empirical aspects

1.4 Resistor type sensors: theoretical aspects

1.5 Non-resistive sensors

1.6 Future trends

Chapter 2: Conduction mechanism in semiconducting metal oxide sensing films: impact on transduction

Abstract:

2.1 Introduction

2.2 General discussion about sensing with semiconducting metal oxide gas sensors

2.3 Sensing and transduction for p- and n-type semiconducting metal oxides

2.4 Investigation of the conduction mechanism in semiconducting metal oxide sensing layers: studies in working conditions

2.5 Conclusion and future trends

Chapter 3: Electrode materials and electrode-oxide interfaces in semiconductor gas sensors

Abstract:

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Electrode materials for semiconductor gas sensors

3.3 Electrode-oxide semiconductor interfaces

3.4 Charge carrier transport in the electrode-oxide semiconductor interfaces

3.5 Gas/solid interactions in the electrode-oxide semiconductor interfaces

3.6 Conclusion

Part II: Advanced sensing methods and structures

Chapter 4: Recent trends in silicon carbide (SiC) and graphene-based gas sensors

Abstract:

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Background: transduction and sensing mechanisms

4.3 Recent material developments for improved selectivity of SiC gas sensors

4.4 Dynamic sensor operation

4.5 Novel SiC and graphene-based sensor devices

4.6 Conclusion

Chapter 5: Recent advances in wide bandgap semiconductor-based gas sensors

Abstract:

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Gas sensing

5.3 Hydrogen sensing

5.4 GaN Schottky diode sensor

5.5 Nanostructured wide bandgap materials

5.6 Silicon carbide Schottky diode hydrogen sensor

5.7 Wireless sensor network development

5.8 Conclusion

5.9 Acknowledgments

Chapter 6: Micromachined semiconductor gas sensors

Abstract:

6.1 Introduction

6.2 A brief history of semiconductors as gas sensitive devices

6.3 Micro-hotplate concept and technologies

6.4 Micromachined metal-oxide gas sensors

6.5 Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible metal-oxide gas sensors

6.6 Micromachined field-effect gas sensors

6.7 Trends and perspectives

6.8 Conclusion

Chapter 7: Semiconducting direct thermoelectric gas sensors

Abstract:

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Direct thermoelectric gas sensors

7.3 Conclusion and future trends

Part III: Nanomaterials for gas sensing

Chapter 8: One- and two-dimensional metal oxide nanostructures for chemical sensing

Abstract:

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Deposition techniques

8.3 Conductometric sensor

8.4 Transduction principles and related novel devices

8.5 Conclusion and future trends

Chapter 9: Semiconductor quantum dots for photoluminescence-based gas sensing

Abstract:

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Quantum dot synthesis, surface functionalization and polymer encapsulation

9.3 Quantum dots for sensing: dependence of detection limits and selectivity on surface-modifying ligands

9.4 Quantum dot-polymer system

9.5 Quantum dot-nanopore array system

9.6 Conclusion and future trends

9.7 Acknowledgments

Chapter 10: Coated and functionalised single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) as gas sensors

Abstract:

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Gas sensor architecture

10.3 Gas sensing mechanisms

10.4 Routes towards sensor selectivity

10.5 Applications