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Semiconductor metal oxide compounds based gas sensors: A literature review

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This paper gives a statistical view about important contributions and advances on semiconductor metal oxide (SMO) compounds based gas sensors developed to detect the air pollutants such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), H2S, NH3, CO2, acetone, ethanol, other volatile compounds and hazardous gases. Moreover, it is revealed that the alloy/composite made up of SMO gas sensors show better gas response than their counterpart single component gas sensors, i.e., they are found to enhance the 4S characteristics namely speed, sensitivity, selectivity and stability. Improvement of such types of sensors used for detection of various air pollutants, which are reported in last two decades, is highlighted herein.

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  1. Department of Physics, S. G. Patil Arts, Science & Commerce College, Sakri, 424304, Dist. Dhule, India

    Sunil Jagannath Patil & Rajendra Ramdas Ahire

  2. Department of Physics, L. V. H. College, Panchavati, Nashik, 422003, India

    Sunil Jagannath Patil, Arun Vithal Patil & Chandrakant Govindrao Dighavkar

  3. Thin and Thick film Laboratory, M. S. G. College, Malegaon Camp, Malegaon, 423105, Dist. Nashik, India

    Kashinath Shravan Thakare & Ratan Yadav Borase

  4. Department of Physics, Uttamrao Patil College, Dahivel, Dist-Dhule, India

    Sachin Jayaram Nandre

  5. Department of Physics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, 416004, India

    Nishad Gopal Deshpande

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Patil, S.J., Patil, A.V., Dighavkar, C.G. et al. Semiconductor metal oxide compounds based gas sensors: A literature review. Front. Mater. Sci. 9, 14–37 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11706-015-0279-7

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