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Gas Transport and Response in Porous Silicon Sensors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Serdar Ozdemir  and
James L Gole
Serdar Ozdemir
Affiliation:
serdaro@gatech.edu
James L Gole
Affiliation:
james.gole@physics.gatech.edu, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Physics, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Abstract

Nanopore covered microporous silicon conductometric gas sensors have been produced via electrochemical etching and standard microfabrication techniques. Reversible and sensitive gas sensors working at room temperature have been fabricated. Sensing of NH3, NOx and PH3 at or below the ppm level have been achieved. The porous silicon (PS) surface has been modified using selective coatings including electroless tin, gold, nickel and copper solutions to increase the response to NOx, NH3, and PH3 respectively. The diffusion of the analyte species has been investigated in the nanopore and micropore regimes by numerical analysis. Comparing the response time of the hybrid porous sensor surface with numerical diffusion calculations on the pores, it has been observed that Knudsen diffusion time scales dominate the sensor response. A transduction model is proposed based on nanopore limited gas diffusion and the experimental response and recovery data.

Keywords

diffusionadsorptionsensor
Type
Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1253: Symposium K – Functional Materials and Nanostructures for Chemical and Bochemical Sensing , 2010 , 1253-K05-33
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2010

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