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Highly Selective Dimethylamine Vapour Sensors Based on Spray Deposited β-Bi2O3 Nanospheres at Low Temperature

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The nanostructured β-Bi2O3 thin film was deposited on glass substrates by chemical spray pyrolysis technique using the mixture of bismuth nitrate pentahydrate with deionized water and nitric acid as a precursor solution. The thin film deposition condition and the precursor salt concentration were optimized to obtain nanostructured β-Bi2O3 thin films. The film obtained from 0.05 M of bismuth nitrate pentahydrate aqueous solution was sprayed at the rate of 3 mL/min. on pre-heated glass substrate at the temperature of 250 °C yielded spherical shaped well-connected nanocrystallites, which has large surface area. The diffraction peak position in XRD confirmed the formation of crystalline β-Bi2O3 with tetragonal crystal structure. Further sensing characteristics of β-Bi2O3 thin film towards various dimethylamine (DMA) vapour concentration have been investigated. The sensing results revealed that β-Bi2O3 thin film shows good sensing response towards dimethylamine vapour at an ambient temperature. The minimum detection limit was found to be 0.5 ppm, and sensors show shorter response and recovery time (28 s and 10 s). The dimethylamine sensing characteristics (response, sensitivity, electrical hysteresis, selectivity in mixed vapour environment, stability) of β-Bi2O3 thin films were discussed and reported.

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Pandeeswari, R., Sonia, T., Balamurugan, D. et al. Highly Selective Dimethylamine Vapour Sensors Based on Spray Deposited β-Bi2O3 Nanospheres at Low Temperature. Sens Imaging 23, 1 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11220-021-00371-1

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