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Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube-Based Chemi-Capacitive Sensor for Hexane and Ammonia

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Two configurations of single-walled carbon nanotube-based chemi-capacitive gas sensors were fabricated, i.e., horizontal and vertical. Further, their sensing properties for hexane and ammonia (NH3) vapor were characterized and compared with chemi-resistive-type sensing properties. Upon exposure to hexane and NH3 vapor, both capacitance and resistance varied as the analyte concentration increased. The sensing sensitivity measured along the horizontal direction increased with the device resistance. However, the capacitive sensing response along the vertical direction was independent of the number and fraction of semi-conductive single-walled carbon nanotubes. Furthermore, the vertical chemi-capacitive sensing response was dependent on the dipole moment of analytes.

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This work was supported by the Global Frontier Program through the Global Frontier Hybrid Interface Materials (GFHIM) project (Grant 2013M3A6B1078870) of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), which is funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning and Technology Innovation Program (20002694, Gas sensor) funded by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE, Korea) and the Fundamental Research Program of the Korea Institute of Materials Science (Grant POC2930, PNK6170).

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  1. Electrochemistry Department, Korea Institute of Materials Science, Changwon, 51508, Republic of Korea

    Seil Kim, Kyu-Hwan Lee & Ju-Yul Lee

  2. Department of Nano-Optical Engineering, Korea Polytechnic University, Siheung, Gyeonggi-do, 15073, Republic of Korea

    Kyoung-Kook Kim

  3. Department of Fusion Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan, 15588, Republic of Korea

    Yong-Ho Choa

  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Gachon University, Seongnam-si, 13120, Republic of Korea

    Jae-Hong Lim

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Kim, S., Lee, KH., Lee, JY. et al. Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube-Based Chemi-Capacitive Sensor for Hexane and Ammonia. Electron. Mater. Lett. 15, 712–719 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13391-019-00177-0

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