Semiconducting Metal Oxides: SrTiO3, BaTiO3 and BaSrTiO3 in Gas-Sensing Applications: A Review
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Abstract
In this work, a broad overview in the field of strontium titanate (ST, SrTiO3)-, barium titanate (BT, BaTiO3)- and barium strontium titanate (BST, BaSrTiO3)-based gas sensors is presented and discussed. The above-mentioned materials are characterized by a perovskite structure with long-term stability and therefore are very promising materials for commercial gas-sensing applications. Within the last 20 years, the number of papers where ST, BT and BST materials were tested as gas-sensitive materials has ten times increased and therefore an actual review about them in this field has been expected by readers, who are researchers involved in gas-sensing applications and novel materials investigations, as well as industry research and development center members, who are constantly searching for gas-sensing materials exhibiting high 3S parameters (sensitivity, selectivity and stability) that can be adapted for commercial realizations. Finally, the NO2-sensing characteristics of the BST-based gas sensors deposited by the authors with the utilization of magnetron sputtering technology are presented.
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OpenAlex topics: Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors · Analytical Chemistry and Sensors · Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
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Institute of Electronics, AGH University of Science and Technology, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, NPU-QMUL Joint Research Institute of Advanced Materials and Structures (JRI-AMAS), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
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Narodowe Centrum Badań i Rozwoju
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