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Zinc Oxide Gas Sensors

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The review discusses the results of studies of gas sensors based on zinc oxide. Possibilities and technologies for the manufacture of such sensors are mentioned. ZnO sensors undoped, doped with impurities and carbon nanotubes, as well as sensors based on nanowires and quantum dots are considered. Possibilities of decreasing the operating (working) temperature of heating the working body of the sensors while maintaining a sufficiently high sensitivity to gases are shown. Recently developed ZnO sensors operate today at room temperature (without preheating their working body) in the absence of and under UV light from the sensor.

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Aroutiounian, V.M. Zinc Oxide Gas Sensors. J. Contemp. Phys. 55, 323–333 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068337220040040

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