纳米晶材料
粒度
微晶
材料科学
氧化物
泊松方程
电荷密度
金属
分析化学(期刊)
化学
复合材料
纳米技术
冶金
物理
色谱法
量子力学
作者
Avner Rothschild,Y. Komem
摘要
The effect of grain size on the sensitivity of chemoresistive nanocrystalline metal-oxide gas sensors was evaluated by calculating the effective carrier concentration as a function of the surface state density for a typical sensing material, SnO2, with different grain sizes between 5 and 80 nm. This involved numerical computation of the charge balance equation (the electroneutrality condition) using approximated analytical solutions of Poisson’s equation for small spherical crystallites. The calculations demonstrate a steep decrease in the carrier concentration when the surface state density reaches a critical value that corresponds to a condition of fully depleted grains, namely, when nearly all the electrons are trapped at the surface. Assuming that the variations in the surface state density are induced by surface interactions with ambient gas molecules, these calculations enable us to simulate the response curves of nanocrystalline gas sensors. The simulations show that the conductivity increases linearly with decreasing trapped charge densities, and that the sensitivity to the gas-induced variations in the trapped charge density is proportional to 1/D, where D is the average grain size.
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