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Carbon Nanotubes-Doped Tin Oxide-Based Thin-Film Sensors to Detect Methane Gas

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Sensing Technology

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The paper presents the fabrication and characterization of thin-film sensors for gas-sensing applications. The use of nanomaterials to detect gases at low concentrations have been very effective due to their low cost, easy customization, high stability and repeatability of the responses. Carbon nanotubes, due to their exceptional electromechanical characteristics, were used as a dopant to mix with tin-oxide to form the resultant nanocomposites. Tin-oxide was synthesized using stannous chloride as the precursor material via hydrothermal method. An optimization process in terms of electrical conductivity and mechanical flexibility dictated the quantity of nano-fillers in the composites. The resultant thin-films were used to detect low-concentrations (1–10 ppm) of methane gas. The characterization of these sensors were studied using COMSOL simulations and other techniques like X-Ray Diffraction. The results displayed here validates the potentiality of the CNTs/SnO2-based sensors for real-time gas-sensing applications.

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The work was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) as part of Germany’s Excellence Strategy—EXC 2050/1—Project ID 390696704—Cluster of Excellence “Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop” (CeTI) of Technische Universität Dresden.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru, 560059, India

    Aniket Chakraborthy

  2. Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany

    Anindya Nag

  3. Centre for Tactile Internet With Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI), Technische Universität Dresden, 01069, Dresden, Germany

    Anindya Nag

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  1. School of Computer & Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    Nagender Kumar Suryadevara

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Chakraborthy, A., Nag, A. (2022). Carbon Nanotubes-Doped Tin Oxide-Based Thin-Film Sensors to Detect Methane Gas. In: Suryadevara, N.K., George, B., Jayasundera, K.P., Roy, J.K., Mukhopadhyay, S.C. (eds) Sensing Technology. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 886. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98886-9_15

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