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Evaluation of Metal Oxide Nanowire Materials With Temperature-Controlled Microsensor Substrates

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Metal Oxide Nanomaterials for Chemical Sensors

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Nanomaterials are becoming increasingly important for next-generation chemical sensing devices. In particular, quasi-one-dimensional materials, such as nanowires, are attracting a great deal of interest. While early examples have demonstrated the promise offered by these nanoscale materials, challenges still remain for integration, systematic characterization and evaluation of such materials in operational devices. Here, a means to assess the performance of nanowire-based materials as chemical microsensors is illustrated with two examples. Polycrystalline nanowire sensing materials are integrated with microsensor substrates that feature an embedded heater, facilitating the use of temperature to interrogate the response characteristics of sensing materials. By changing the operating temperature, different effects are observed as a function of nanowire loading density (aligned tin oxide nanowires) or overall material morphology (tungsten oxide materials, including a thin film). Further, by using conventional signal processing and data analysis approaches, the sensitivity and selectivity of these materials as a function of material scale and morphology are characterized.

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge C. S. Mungle for assistance in the dielectrophoretic alignment of the tin nanowires and the technical assistance of C.B. Montgomery in preparing the microsensor platforms and packaging. B. Raman was supported by a NIH–NIST Joint Postdoctoral Associateship Award and D. L. Lahr was supported by a NIST Postdoctoral Associateship Award, both administered through the National Research Council.

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    Kurt D. Benkstein, Baranidharan Raman, David L. Lahr & Steven Semancik

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Benkstein, K.D., Raman, B., Lahr, D.L., Semancik, S. (2013). Evaluation of Metal Oxide Nanowire Materials With Temperature-Controlled Microsensor Substrates. In: Carpenter, M., Mathur, S., Kolmakov, A. (eds) Metal Oxide Nanomaterials for Chemical Sensors. Integrated Analytical Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5395-6_14

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