Ultrasensitive chemiresistive humidity sensor based on gold functionalized WS2 nanosheets

Gupta, A and Sakhuja, N and Jha, RK and Bhat, N (2021) Ultrasensitive chemiresistive humidity sensor based on gold functionalized WS2 nanosheets. In: Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 331 .

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Abstract

An ultrasensitive, low power humidity sensor based on Au nanoparticle-functionalized WS2 nano-sheets (NS) has been demonstrated in this work. Liquid phase exfoliation of bulk WS2 was incorporated to prepare this material, followed by its decoration with Au nanoparticles (NPs) using a wet chemical approach. The compositional and nano-structuralproperties of the as-prepared Au-functionalized WS2 NS have been characterized using microscopic (Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)), and spectroscopic (Raman spectroscopy and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)) techniques. The humidity sensing characteristics of Au-functionalized WS2 NS based sensors and pristine WS2 NS based sensors have been studied over an extensive relative humidity range, RH(25 %–75 %) at room temperature. The sensing results of Au-functionalized WS2 NS showed an ultrasensitive response, rapid response/recovery behaviour and excellent repeatability. A giant two orders of magnitude enhancement in humidity sensing response was observed in functionalized nanosheets as compared to the pristine ones (70,000 versus 1000). The sensitivity derived from linear regime of operation in the higher RH% range (55 %–75 %) further suggests two orders of dramatic increase, the values being 3007.9 per RH% for the Au-functionalized device and 44.3 per RH% for pristine WS2 NS based device. An appreciable improvement in the response/recovery time has been observed; 107s and 13s (at 65 % RH) being the response and recovery time respectively for Au-functionalized WS2, whereas the corresponding values for pristine WS2 were found to be 228s and 29s respectively. A probable mechanism for the humidity sensing of Au-functionalized WS2 NS has also been suggested in this work.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Sensors and Actuators A: Physical
Publisher:	Elsevier B.V.
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to Elsevier B.V.
Keywords:	Chemisresistive; Gold nanoparticles; Humidity sensors; Liquid exfoliation; WS2 nanosheets
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited:	18 Apr 2023 10:08
Last Modified:	18 Apr 2023 10:08
URI:	https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/80660

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