Development of a High Stability Pd-Ni Alloy Thin-Film Coated SAW Device for Sensing Hydrogen
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Key Laboratory of Non-Destructive Testing Ministry of Education, Nanchang HangKong University, Nanchang 330063, China
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Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Sensors 2019, 19(16), 3560; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19163560
Received: 5 July 2019
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Revised: 13 August 2019
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Accepted: 14 August 2019
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Published: 15 August 2019
(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
A Pd-Ni alloy thin-film coated surface acoustic wave (SAW) device is proposed for sensing hydrogen. The Pd-Ni thin-film was sputtered onto the SAW propagation path of a SAW device with a delay line pattern to build the chip-sized hydrogen sensor. The prepared sensor chip was characterized by employing a differential oscillation loop. The effect of the Pd-Ni film thickness on sensing performance was also evaluated, and optimal parameters were determined, allowing for fast response and high sensitivity. Excellent working stability (detection error of 3.7% in half a year), high sensitivity (21.3 kHz/%), and fast response (less than 10 s) were achieved from the 40 nm Pd-Ni alloy thin-film coated sensing device.
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Keywords:
Pd-Ni alloy thin-film; hydrogen sensor; surface acoustic wave; working stability; differential oscillation loop
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Wang, W.; Liu, X.; Mei, S.; Liu, M.; Lu, C.; Lu, M. Development of a High Stability Pd-Ni Alloy Thin-Film Coated SAW Device for Sensing Hydrogen. Sensors 2019, 19, 3560. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19163560
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Wang W, Liu X, Mei S, Liu M, Lu C, Lu M. Development of a High Stability Pd-Ni Alloy Thin-Film Coated SAW Device for Sensing Hydrogen. Sensors. 2019; 19(16):3560. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19163560
Chicago/Turabian StyleWang, Wen, Xueli Liu, Shengchao Mei, Mengwei Liu, Chao Lu, and Minghui Lu. 2019. "Development of a High Stability Pd-Ni Alloy Thin-Film Coated SAW Device for Sensing Hydrogen" Sensors 19, no. 16: 3560. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19163560
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