Abstract

We report on a selective hydrogen sulfide gas sensor based on zinc ferrite film which is obtained by a microwave-assisted solvothermal deposition route. The response of the chemiresistive device is found to be in the range of 1872&#x0025; - 90&#x0025; for 5.6 ppm &#x2013; 0.3 ppm of H<sub>2</sub>S gas at an operating temperature of 250&#x00B0;C. The density functional theory studies suggest physisorption of the H<sub>2</sub>S molecules at the partially-inverted ZnFe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub> surface as the reason behind the fast rise (of the order of &#x007E;40 sec) and fall time (of the order of &#x007E;70 sec) with complete recovery of the device. Finally, a dual-differential subtractor based auto-balancing interface circuit is proposed to drive this sensor which is advantageous in terms of accuracy and particularly suitable for a device such as ours, which has a wide dynamic range.

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