Research Article

New Design of ZnO Nanorod- and Nanowire-Based NO2 Room-Temperature Sensors Prepared by Hydrothermal Method

Table 1

Response time/recovery time of the ZnO NR and NW sensors to various concentrations of NO2 at different applied voltages.

Applied voltageNanorodsNanowires
1 ppm5 ppm10 ppm1 ppm2.5 ppm5 ppm10 ppm

1 V270/716466/827293/553181/1153279/834389/1238441/535
2 V547/498608/800277/786131/202141/302108/21643/136
4 V11/187843/1580762/1597321/-305/734248/712298/600
8 V547/416708/917668/1008218/572366/491382/745205/498

Unit: seconds.