7-11 July 2014
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
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Nitrogen dioxide and Ammonia Gas Sensing by Tungsten Trioxide Film

8 Jul 2014, 14:20
20m
D Les 201

D Les 201

Oral Presentation Track A - Division for Physics of Condensed Matter and Materials DPCMM1

Speaker

Mr Malcolm Govender (CSIR)

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Yes

Level for award<br>&nbsp;(Hons, MSc, <br> &nbsp; PhD)?

PhD

Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution

Dr. Bonex W. Mwakikunga
BMwakikunga@csir.co.za

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Tungsten oxide film was reactively-sputtered on alumina substrate with Pt-contacts from a pure W target and argon/oxygen-plasma. The synthesized and annealed tungsten oxide was characterized with XRD, XPS, Raman spectroscopy, UV/Vis spectroscopy and Resistance as a function of Temperature, and found to be stoichiometric triclinic phase tungsten trioxide. The pure film was used to sense ppm concentrations of nitrogen dioxide and ammonia at room-temperature and 100oC. At 100oC, The sensitivity of the film towards nitrogen dioxide increased, and decreased significantly towards ammonia. This was due to tungsten trioxide being an n-type metal-oxide semiconductor which preferred the reaction with the oxidizing gas over the reducing gas.

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Co-authors

Dr Augusto Machatine (University of Pretoria) Dr Bonex Mwakikunga (CSIR) Prof. Herbert Kunert (University of Pretoria) Prof. Sanjay Mathur (University of Cologne, Germany) Dr Trilok Singh (Univeisity of Cologne, Germany) Dr Y Goenuellue (University of Cologne, Germany)

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