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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2012, Article ID 145406, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2012/145406 Research Article SnO2 Nanoparticle-Based Passive Capacitive Sensor for Ethylene Detection Mangilal Agarwal,1 Mercyma D. Balachandran,2 Sudhir Shrestha,1 and Kody Varahramyan1 1 Integrated Nanosystems Development Institute (INDI), Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), 723 W. Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA 2 Foxconn International Holdings (FIH), 1551 Sawgrass Corporate Parkway, Sunrise, FL 33323, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Mangilal Agarwal, agarwal@ Received 24 March 2012; Accepted 1 June 2012 ´ Academic Editor: Gregory Guisbiers Copyright © 2012 Mangilal Agarwal et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A passive capacitor-based ethylene sensor using SnO2 nanoparticles is presented for the detection of ethylene gas. The nanoscale particle size (10 nm to 15 nm) and film thickness (1300 nm) of the sensing dielectric layer in the capacitor model aid in sensing ethylene at room temperature and eliminate the need for microhotplates used in existing bulk SnO -resistive sensors. The SnO - 2 2 sensing layer is deposited using room temperature dip coating process on flexible polyimide substrates with copper as the top and bottom plates of the capacitor. The capacitive sensor fabricated with SnO2 nanoparticles as the dielectric showed a total decrease