Recent developments on application of nanometal-oxide based gas sensor arrays

Abstract

It is shown that the sensor arrays can acquire more information on a given sample than an individual sensor. The main classes of gas-sensing materials include metal-oxide semiconductors. Gas sensors based on chemiresistive semiconducting metal-oxides have many potential benefits including, their very low cost, fast response, recovery time, simple electronic interface, ease of use, and ability to detect a large analytes. Recent advances in gas sensor arrays have shown the capability to incorporate nanomaterial based cross-reactive array. In this way it is possible to increase the surface/volume ratio of the sensing layer. Therefore the surface scattering is better influenced by adsorbed species and change in sensor conductivity is higher. Also the sensitivity of semiconductor oxide materials can be improved by using of nanoparticles. Gas sensor arrays based on nanotechnology can rapidly, sensitively, and selectively detect target molecules.