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. 2020 Aug 12;20(8):6120-6127.
doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02221. Epub 2020 Jul 24.

High-Performance Atomically-Thin Room-Temperature NO2 Sensor

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High-Performance Atomically-Thin Room-Temperature NO2 Sensor

Amin Azizi et al. Nano Lett. .
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Abstract

The development of room-temperature sensing devices for detecting small concentrations of molecular species is imperative for a wide range of low-power sensor applications. We demonstrate a room-temperature, highly sensitive, selective, stable, and reversible chemical sensor based on a monolayer of the transition-metal dichalcogenide Re0.5Nb0.5S2. The sensing device exhibits a thickness-dependent carrier type, and upon exposure to NO2 molecules, its electrical resistance considerably increases or decreases depending on the layer number. The sensor is selective to NO2 with only minimal response to other gases such as NH3, CH2O, and CO2. In the presence of humidity, not only are the sensing properties not deteriorated but also the monolayer sensor shows complete reversibility with fast recovery at room temperature. We present a theoretical analysis of the sensing platform and identify the atomically sensitive transduction mechanism.

Keywords: layer-dependent electrical properties; room-temperature sensor; transition-metal dichalcogenides; two-dimensional materials.

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