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Surface Modification of ZnO Nanowires with CuO: a Tool to Realize Highly-Sensitive H2S Sensor
Полная версия: 10.1134/S1063783421030070
Goyal C.P.1,2,3, Goyal D.1, Ramgir N.S.4, Navaneethan M.1, Hayakawa Y.3, Muthamizhchelvan C.1, Ikeda H.2,3, Ponnusamy S.1
1Functional Materials and Energy Devices Laboratory, Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, SRM IST, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu 603 203, India
2Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu 432, Japan
3Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu 432, Japan
4Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai 400 085, India
Email: suruponnus@gmail.com
Поступила в редакцию: 29 октября 2020 г.
Выставление онлайн: 12 декабря 2020 г.

Hydrothermally grown ZnO nanowires (NWs) have been successfully synthesized and surface modified by an ultrathin layer of CuO using dip coating technique to achieve a highly sensitive H2S sensor. XRD analysis confirmed the hexagonal structure of ZnO without any Cu sub-oxide peaks. After CuO modification, the peak shift was observed in the electronic states of O and assigned to the defects and increase in adsorbed oxygen species. Similarly, a red shift was also observed in the band edge absorption after CuO modification arising due to defects. The sensor film showed an overall n-type character as confirmed using I(V) characteristics. Interestingly, sensor response kinetics towards H2S were enhanced after CuO modification. The highest sensor response value of 298 was measured towards 10 ppm H2S at 150oC for CuO : ZnO NWs sample having 1.26 at.% of Cu. This improved sensor response has been attributed mainly to the formation of randomly distributed p-n nano-hetero-junctions between p-type CuO and n-type ZnO over the sensor surface. In particular, the p-n nano-hetero-junctions collapsed due to conversion of semiconducting CuO into metallic CuS after the unique interaction with H2S. Keywords: ZnO nanowires, gas sensing, H2S, surface modifications, p-n hetero-junctions.

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