Solid State Gas Sensor Research in Germany – a Status Report 英文参考文献.docVIP

Sensors 2009, 9, 4323-4365; doi:10.3390/OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Review Solid State Gas Sensor Research in Germany – a Status Report Ralf Moos 1,*, Kathy Sahner 1, Maximilian Fleischer 2, Ulrich Guth 3, Nicolae Barsan 4 and Udo Weimar 4 1 Functional Materials Laboratory, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany 2 Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT PS 6, 81730 München, Germany 3 Kurt-Schwabe Research Institute Meinsberg, 04720 Ziegra-Knobelsdorf, Germany 4 Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: Functional.Materials@Uni-Bayreuth.de; Tel.: +49-921-557401; Fax: +49-921-557405 Received: 25 March 2009; in revised form: 4 May 2009 / Accepted: 26 May 2009 / Published: 3 June 2009 Abstract: This status report overviews activities of the German gas sensor research community. It highlights recent progress in the field of potentiometric, amperometric, conductometric, impedimetric, and field effect-based gas sensors. It is shown that besides step-by-step improvements of conventional principles, e.g. by the application of novel materials, novel principles turned out to enable new markets. In the field of mixed potential gas sensors, novel materials allow for selective detection of combustion exhaust components. The same goal can be reached by using zeolites for impedimetric gas sensors. Operando spectroscopy is a powerful tool to learn about the mechanisms in n-type and in p- type conductometric sensors and to design knowledge-based improved sensor devices. Novel deposition methods are applied to gain direct access to the material morphology as well as to obtain dense thick metal oxide films without high temperature steps. Since conductometric and impedimetric sensors have the disadvantage that a current has to pass the ga