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Sensors 2008, 8, 6355-6370; DOI: 10.3390/s8106355 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /sensors Article Room Temperature Ammonia Gas Sensing Using Mixed Conductor based TEMPOS Structures Mamta Saroch 1, Sunita Srivastava 1, Dietmar Fink 2 and Amita Chandra 3,* 1 Department of Physics, Panjab University, 160014 Chandigarh, India; E-mails: mamtasaroch@yahoo.co.in; sunita@pu.ac.in 2 3 Hahn-Meitner-Institute, Glienicker Str. 100, D-14109 Berlin, Germany; E-mail: fink@hmi.de Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, 110007 Delhi, India; * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: achandra@physics.du.ac.in Received: 20 August 2008; in revised form: 18 September 2008 / Accepted: 7 October 2008 / Published: 14 October 2008 Abstract: The current/voltage characteristics of mixed (ion+electron) conductor-based ‘TEMPOS’ (Tunable Electronic Material with Pores in Oxide on Silicon) structures are reported. TEMPOS are novel electronic MOS-like structures having etched swift heavy ion tracks (i.e., nanopores) in the dielectric layer filled with some conducting material. The three contacts (two on top and one on the bottom), which resemble the classical bipolar or field effect transistor arrangements are, in principle, interchangeable when the overall electrical resistance along the tracks and on the surface are similar. Consequently, three configurations are obtained by interchanging the top contacts with the base contact in electronic circuits. The current/voltage characteristics show a diode like behaviour. Impedance measurements have been made for TEMPOS structures with tracks filled with ion conductors and also mixed conductors to study the ammonia sensing behaviour. The impedance has been found to be a function of frequency and magnitude of the applied signal and concentration of the ammonia solution. This is attributed to the large number o