Metal Oxide Gas Sensors, a Survey of Selectivity Issues Addressed at the SENSOR Lab, Brescia (Italy)

Year: 2017

Authors: Ponzoni A., Baratto C., Cattabiani N., Falasconi M., Galstyan V., Nunez-Carmona E., Rigoni F., Sberveglieri V., Zambotti G., Zappa D.

Autors Affiliation: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO), Unità di Brescia SENSOR Lab, Via Branze 45, 25123 Brescia, Italy; Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Brescia, SENSOR Lab, Via Valotti 9, 25133 Brescia, Italy; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Bioscienze e Biorisorse (IBBR), Via Madonna del Piano, 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy

Abstract: This work reports the recent results achieved at the SENSOR Lab, Brescia (Italy) to address the selectivity of metal oxide based gas sensors. In particular, two main strategies are being developed for this purpose: (i) investigating different sensing mechanisms featuring different response spectra that may be potentially integrated in a single device; (ii) exploiting the electronic nose (EN) approach. The former has been addressed only recently and activities are mainly focused on determining the most suitable configuration and measurements to exploit the novel mechanism. Devices suitable to exploit optical (photoluminescence), magnetic (magneto-optical Kerr effect) and surface ionization in addition to the traditional chemiresistor device are here discussed together with the sensing performance measured so far. The electronic nose is a much more consolidated technology, and results are shown concerning its suitability to respond to industrial and societal needs in the fields of food quality control and detection of microbial activity in human sweat.

Journal/Review: SENSORS

Volume: 17 (4)      Pages from: 714-1  to: 714-27

More Information: The authors acknowledge the financial support from the European Community\’s 7th Framework Programme, under the grant agreement No. 313110 \”Sniffer for concealed people discovery (SNOOPY)\” and from the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme under grant No. 9085043.
KeyWords: metal oxides; nanowires; nanotubes; gas-sensors; photoluminescence
DOI: 10.3390/s17040714

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Citations: 116
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