Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
ABSTRACT
A ZnO nanostructure based methanol sensor prepared by
sol gel having average length of 599nm is reported in
this paper. A low temperature chemical bath deposition
technique is employed using zinc nitrate hexahydrate
and hexamethylenetetramineprecursor at 1000C on SiO2
substrate having sol gel grown seed layer. After
structural characterization (XRD, SEM) three types of
sensor structure designed using Aluminum electrode
.The .1M concentration sample shows better magnitude
response at 2500 C .While other sensor shows that at low
temperature less than 1500 C the sensor operates. The
possible sensing mechanism also discussed briefly.
Keywords CBD, Methanol Sensing, Sol Gel, ZnO
Nanostructure.
1. Introduction
The different gases for thin film sensitivity are discussed
by [13] so that there is a change in the grain boundary
resistance. [7] Shows the effect of number of coating on
seed layer and their effect on film thickness. Results
show that thickness increases linearly with number of
coating. The effect of heating, spinning speed, fume
exhaust and precise control of concentration of reactants
[5] strongly effects the crystallographic orientation. The
synthesis of nano composities using ferric nitrate and
ethylene glycol as precursor via sol gel method and the
effect of annealing temperature was studied. The
crystallite size increased with annealing temperature.
The effect of calcinations temperature was affected the
quantum size of ZnO crystal [3]. The nanocrystalline
thin film prepared by dip coating method was studied
[2].Of these methods CBD provides a low temperature,
fast, versatile and easily controllable method for the
synthesis of various ZnO nanostructures on a variety of
substrates [1]. The advantage of this method also
includes the possibility of large-scale production of such
structures and the low energy requirement. Though there
have been some reports regarding methane sensing with
sol-gel grown or electrodeposited ZnO thin films,
2. Experimental Procedure
The overall growth mechanism of ZnO nanostructure
was similar to that reported elaborately by Banerjee et. al
,[1]. The base seed layer of ZnO nanostructure is formed
by sol-gel technique by reacting Zinc Acetate dehydrate
(3gm) and 2-propanol(25ml) on SiO2 / p-Si<100>
substrate, 3ml diethaloamine was also added drop by
drop to get crystal clear solution. The samples were spin
coated a(3000 r.p.m) for 30 sec and put in annealing
furnance at 5000C for 1hr in nitrogen ambient and
subsequently ZnO seed layer was formed by thermal
decomposition of Zinc Acetate Dihydrates. To prepare
ZnO nanostructure, a 50ml solution was prepared by
mixing Zinc nitrate hexahydrate and
HMTA in
deionised water in different molar ration i.e. .1M,.0
204
www.ijete.org
3. Sensor Fabrication
Three types of sensor structures were fabricated for
sensing methanol vapor. The details of sensor structures
are summarized in Table I.
Sample
S-1
S-2
S-3
Table 1
Nomenclature of Samples
Concentration
No.of Coatings
.1M
Single
.01M
Single
1M
Single
peak
101
002
100
2theta(0)
36.2409
34.4279
31.7834
FWHM(0)
0.1673
0.2175
0.1171
70
60
50
40
S-1
30
S-2
S-3
20
10
6. Conclusion
It is concluded that the ZnO nanostructure based
methanol sensor using Al electrode and prepared by the
cost effective technique shows some improvement as
compared to the gold electrode used by [1]. So it is
better to design and fabricate a sensor using Al electrode
and cost effective technique i.e. sol gel is better for
Practical applications. The chemical bath deposition of
ZnO thin films and the effect of different molar
concentrations of the mixtures on the morphologies are
analyzed.The structural characterization of prepared
films has been done. The lattice constants are lies in the
range as per standard values .The maximum grain size of
the film matched with the proposed grainsize. Crystal
structure obtained is hexagonal and plane orientation is
obtained at <002> . Results obtained from scanning
electron microscopy for molar ratio of mixtures shows
the length of nanostructure and the testing result is
comparable with the proposed results. By using Al
electrodes a semiconductor oxides based methanol gas
sensor is fabricated and have a comparable sensitivity as
per proposed criteria.
References
[1]Nabaneeta Banerjee, Sunipa Roy, Member ,Chandan
Senior Member, and Partha Bhattacharyya, Member,
2013High Dynamic Range Methanol
100
150
200
250
300
350
Tempreature (0c)
[2]
K
Sivakumar,
V
Senthil
Kumar,
Nmuthukumarasamy, M thambithambidurai durai and T
s senthil, 2012,Influence of pH on ZnO nanocrystalline
thin films prepared by solgel dip coating methodBull.
Matter. Sci., Vol. 35, No. 3,Indian Academy of Sciences
pp. 327331.
[3] Shouli Bai, Jingwei Hu, Dianqing Li, Ruixian Luo,
Aifan Chen, and Chung ChiunLiu,2012,Effect of
Calcinations Temperature on NO2 Sensing Properties for
Quantum Size ZnO Crystals IEEE
SENSORS
JOURNAL, VOL. 12, NO. 5.
[4] Kish Island, I.R. Iran, 2012,Synthesisand
Characterization of Fe3O4 & ZnO Nanocomposites
bySol-Gel 4th Conference on Nanostructures (ICNS4).
206
www.ijete.org