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Enhanced response characteristics of SnO2 thin film loaded with nanoscale catalytic clusters for Methane gas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2011

Divya Haridas ,
Arijit Chowdhuri ,
K. Sreenivas  and
Vinay Gupta
Divya Haridas
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India Keshav Mahavidyalaya, Pitampura, University of Delhi, India
Arijit Chowdhuri
Affiliation:
Acharya Narendra Dev College, Govindpuri, University of Delhi, India
K. Sreenivas
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Vinay Gupta
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
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Abstract

In recent years, an increase in usage of methane gas in household and automobile industry has been observed. Detection of methane is always a great cause of concern for safety at home or automobile industries, productions in mines and chemical factories. This paper reports the response characteristics of rf-sputtered SnO2 thin films (90 nm thin) loaded with nanoscale catalytic clusters for detection of methane. Ultrathin (8 nm) metal and metal-oxide catalysts (Pt, Ag, Ni, Pd, Au, NiO, Au2O3) clusters are loaded over the surface SnO2 thin film. The SnO2-Pd cluster structure is found to exhibit an enhanced response (97.2%) for 200 ppm of methane at a relatively low operating temperature (220oC). The enhanced response is shown to be primarily due to the dominant roles played by both Fermi level energy control mechanism and spillover mechanism.

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Pdfilmmethane
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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1303: Symposium Y – Nanomaterials Integration for Electronics, Energy and Sensing , 2011 , mrsf10-1303-y10-25
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2011

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