2018/02/19 by Sachin S Bharadwaj, B W Shivaraj, Shivaraj B W +16
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Applied Physics (physics.app-ph) #Copper-based nanomaterials and applications #FOS: Physical sciences #Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #ZnO doping and properties #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #physics.app-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1803.07144
7 Pages, 16 Figures, 3 Tables
arxiv created 2018/02/19 · openalex publication_date 2018/02/19 · arxiv updated 2018/03/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Objective of this work was to synthesize Copper doped Zinc Oxide (CZO) films and optimization of process parameters by varying molarity of zinc acetate dehydrate from 0.5 M to 1.0 M, concentration of copper acetate monohydrate from 1% to 5 % and annealing temperature from 200 C to 300 C to measure the sensitivity of CZO films for CO (Carbon Monoxide) gas. The concentration of CO gas was maintained at 5 ppm and operating temperature of 250 oC was used for sensing. Analysis for sensitivity showed highest grading for parametric combination of 0.75 molarity, 3% copper concentration and 300 C annealing temperature with surface roughness of 3.90 nm and grain size of 256 nm. TEM image revealed the crystalline grain size was 5 nm. ANOVA showed that annealing temperature influenced the sensitivity by 69.06 % .