Synthesis and gas sensing behavior of nanostructured V2O5 thin films prepared by spray pyrolysis |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Physics, University of Guilan, Rasht 41335, Guilan, Iran;2. Nanophysics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), via Morego 30, 16163 Genova, Italy;1. School of Materials & Mineral Resources Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia.;2. Faculty of Technology of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil;1. Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia;2. Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia;1. Microelectronics and Materials Physics Laboratories, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 4500, FI-90014 Oulu, Finland;2. Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, SE-581 83, Linköping, Sweden;1. School of Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, PR China;2. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, PR China |
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| Abstract: | Nanocrystalline vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) thin films have been deposited by a spray pyrolysis technique on preheated glass substrates. The substrate temperature was changed between 300 and 500 °C. The structural and morphological properties of the films were investigated by means of X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The influence of different substrate temperatures on ethanol response of V2O5 has also been investigated. XRD revealed that the films deposited at Tpyr=300 °C have low peak intensities, but the degree of crystallinity improved when the temperature was increased to 500 °C and films had orthorhombic structures with preferential orientations along the (0 0 1) direction. The fractal analysis showed a decreasing trend versus the pyrolysis temperature. Sensing properties of the samples were studied in the presence of ethanol vapor. The operating temperature of the sensor was optimized for the best gas response. The response increased linearly with different ethanol concentrations. It was found that films deposited at the lowest substrate temperature (300 °C) had the highest sensing response to ethanol. |
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| Keywords: | Spray pyrolysis Substrate temperature Nanocrystalline vanadium pentoxide Gas sensor Fractal analysis |
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