scholarly journals Soft, Wirelessly Powered Humidity Sensor Based on SnO2 Nanowires for Wireless/Wearable Sensor Application

Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 2176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunchul Shin

Humidity, along with temperature, is one of the most important environmental variables in people’s lives. The control of humidity is an important matter that is related to material properties and stability in various industries, as well as basic living. In order to detect humidity, changes in the physical, chemical, and electrical properties of materials related to humidity are used, and studies using various methods are conducted. In this study, a field-effect transistor (FET) device was fabricated on a soft polymer substrate with SnO2 nanowires (NWs), whose electrical properties change in response to water molecules. The SnO2 NWs, synthesized by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), were transferred onto a polymer substrate, using a sliding transfer method. The NW FET device, which was connected to an aluminum (Al)-based radio frequency (RF) receiving antenna, was wirelessly operated as a humidity sensor, based on the change in electrical properties of SnO2 NWs according to the relative humidity (RH). It was configured with a wireless antenna and light emitting diode (LED) indicator to implement a soft wirelessly powered humidity sensor that senses high RH and is expected to be used as a wearable electronic/sensor in the future.

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 81-84
Author(s):  
J. Senawiratne ◽  
M. Zhu ◽  
W. Zhao ◽  
Y. Xia ◽  
Y. Li ◽  
...  

Optical properties of green emission Ga 0.80 In 0.20 N/GaN multi-quantum well and light emitting diode have been investigated by using photoluminescence, cathodoluminescence, electroluminescence, and photoconductivity. The temperature dependent photoluminescence and cathodoluminescence studies show three emission bands including GaInN/GaN quantum well emission centered at 2.38 eV (~ 520 nm). The activation energy of the non-radiative recombination centers was found to be ~ 60 meV. The comparison of photoconductivity with luminescence spectroscopy revealed that optical properties of quantum well layers are strongly affected by the quantum-confined Stark effect.


2002 ◽  
Vol 722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mee-Yi Ryu ◽  
C. Q. Chen ◽  
E. Kuokstis ◽  
J. W. Yang ◽  
G. Simin ◽  
...  

AbstractWe present the results on investigation and analysis of photoluminescence (PL) dynamics of quaternary AlInGaN epilayers and AlInGaN/AlInGaN multiple quantum wells (MQWs) grown by a novel pulsed metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (PMOCVD). The emission peaks in both AlInGaN epilayers and MQWs show a blueshift with increasing excitation power density. The PL emission of quaternary samples is attributed to recombination of carriers/excitons localized at band-tail states. The PL decay time increases with decreasing emission photon energy, which is a characteristic of localized carrier/exciton recombination due to alloy disorder. The obtained properties of AlInGaN materials grown by a PMOCVD are similar to those of InGaN. This indicates that the AlInGaN system is promising for ultraviolet applications such as the InGaN system for blue light emitting diode and laser diode applications.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 1642-1650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenliang Wang ◽  
Yunhao Lin ◽  
Yuan Li ◽  
Xiaochan Li ◽  
Liegen Huang ◽  
...  

High-quality GaN-based light-emitting diode (LED) wafers have been grown on Si substrates by metal–organic chemical vapor deposition by designing epitaxial structures with AlN/Al0.24Ga0.76N buffer layers and a three-dimensional (3D) GaN layer.


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