Identifying the Issue
- Monitoring of humidity plays a crucial role in maintaining household, industrial processes as well as the health of the beings.
- Need to develop fast responsive sensing materials and flexible sensor designs
Objective of the Research
- Enhance humidity sensing properties of ZnO by forming heterostructures with semiconducting oxide glasses
Who should read this?
Researchers and scientists in materials science and sensor technology
Solution
- Study sensing properties by tuning structural and electronic properties
Key Features and Benefits
- Semiconducting oxide glasses are studied for heterostructure formation with ZnO.
- Heterostructures will significantly improve the sensitivity and reduce the response/recovery times of the humidity sensors.
- Changes in orientational growth and microstructure of ZnO particles due to addition of semiconducting glass particle.
- Enhanced humidity sensing and low response time (12 s) obtained for ZnO/glass heterostructure films
Impact
- ZnO-glass heterostructure-based humidity sensors exhibit 12 seconds response time and 16 seconds recovery time, making them suitable for real-time humidity monitoring.
- The unique microstructural features of ZnO nanoparticles and semiconducting ZnO/glass heterostructure mechanism enable fast humidity sensing
- ZnO-glass heterostructure-based humidity sensors demonstrate reliable operation at room temperature, making them suitable for various industrial and commercial applications
Team
Upesh Kumar Appikonda and Paramesh Gadige *
Title of paper: “Humidity sensing studies on ZnO/bismuth borate glass heterostructure thin films”
Read Paper Here: doi.org/10.1007/s10854-024-14202-y
