S. Manorama et al., HYDROGEN-SULFIDE SENSOR-BASED ON TIN OXIDE DEPOSITED BY SPRAY-PYROLYSIS AND MICROWAVE PLASMA CHEMICAL-VAPOR-DEPOSITION, Applied physics letters, 64(23), 1994, pp. 3163-3165
Spray pyrolysis and microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition techniq
ues have been employed successfully for the deposition of CuO impregna
ted SnO2 films suitable for sensing hydrogen sulfide and methyl mercap
tan. The observed change in conductivity of these films upon exposure
to H2S gas in air has been explained on the basis of the band theory o
f solids.