Abstract
In this work, a vapor cooling condensation system was utilized to deposit various amounts of p-type gold-black nanoparticles (NPs) onto the surface of n-type gallium oxide (Ga2O3) nanorods forming p-n heterojunction-structured sensing membranes of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) gas sensors. The role and the sensing mechanism of the various gold-black NP-decorated Ga2O3 nanorods in NO2 gas sensors were investigated. The coverage and atomic percentage of the sensing membranes were observed using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) measurements and energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), respectively. For the NO2 gas sensor using the sensing membrane of 60 s-deposited gold-black NP-decorated Ga2O3 nanorods under a NO2 concentration of 10 ppm, the highest responsivity of 5221.1% was obtained. This result was attributed to the spillover effect and the formation of the p-n heterojunction, which increased more ionized-oxygen adsorption sites and promoted the reaction between NO2 gas and Ga2O3 nanorods. Furthermore, the NO2 gas sensor could detect the low NO2 concentration of 100 ppb and achieved a responsivity of 56.9%. The resulting NO2 gas sensor also exhibited excellent selectivity for detecting NO2 gas, with higher responsivity at a NO2 concentration of 10 ppm compared with that of the C2H5OH and NH3 concentrations of 100 ppm.
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