Abstract
Here, we show that the presence of adsorbed water improves the oxygen-sensing properties of Pt/TiO at moderate temperatures. The studied interface is based on porous plasma electrolytic oxidized titanium (PEO-TiO) covered with platinum clusters. The electrical resistance across Pt/PEO-TiO is explained by an electronic depletion layer. Oxygen adsorbates further increase the depletion by inducing extrinsic interface states, which are occupied by TiO conduction band electrons. The high oxygen partial pressure in ambient air substantially limits the electron transport across the interface. Our DC measurements at defined levels of humidity at 30 C show that adsorbed water counteracts this shortcoming, allowing oxygen sensing at room conditions. In addition, response and recovery times from temporal oxygen exposure decrease with humidity. We attribute the effects to competing adsorption processes and reactions of water with adsorbed oxygen species and/or lattice oxygen, which involve electron re-injection to the TiO conduction band. Elevated temperatures up to 170 attenuate the effects, presumably due to the lower binding strength to the surface of molecular water compared with oxygen adsorbates.
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