• Journal of Semiconductors
  • Vol. 42, Issue 12, 122805 (2021)
Dipak L Gapale1, Pranav P. Bardapurkar1, Sandeep A. Arote1, Sanjaykumar Dalvi1, Prashant Baviskar1, and Ratan Y Borse2
Author Affiliations
  • 1S. N. Arts, D. J. M. Commerce and B. N. S. Science College Sangamner, District Ahmednagar 422 605 MS, India
  • 2Thin and Thick film Laboratory, Department of Electronics, M. S. G. College, Malegaon Camp (Pin 423105), District Nashik, Maharashtra, India
  • show less
    DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/42/12/122805 Cite this Article
    Dipak L Gapale, Pranav P. Bardapurkar, Sandeep A. Arote, Sanjaykumar Dalvi, Prashant Baviskar, Ratan Y Borse. Humidity sensing properties of spray deposited Fe doped TiO2 thin film[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2021, 42(12): 122805 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    In the present work, ferrite (Fe) doped TiO2 thin films with different volume percentage (vol%) were synthesized using a spray pyrolysis technique. The effect of Fe doping on structural properties such as crystallite size, texture coefficient, microstrain, dislocation densities etc. were evaluated from the X ray diffratometry (XRD) data. XRD data revealed a polycrystalline anatase TiO2 phase for sample synthesized up to 2 vol% and mixed anatase and rutile crystalline phase for sample synthesized at 4 vol% Fe doped TiO2. The crystalline size was observed to decrease with increase in Fe dopant vol% and also other structural parameters changes with Fe dopant percentage. In the present work, electrical resistance was observed to decrease with a rise in Fe dopant vol% and temperature of the sample. Thermal properties like temperature coefficient of resistance and activation energy also showed strong correlation with Fe dopant vol%. Humidity sensing properties of the synthesized sample altered with a change in Fe dopant vol%. In the present paper, maximum sensitivity of about 88.7% for the sample synthesized with 2 vol% Fe doped TiO2 and also the lowest response and recovery time of about 52 and 3 s were reported for the same sample.
    $ {T}_{\rm c}\left(hkl\right)=\frac{\dfrac{I\left(hkl\right)}{{I}_{0}\left(hkl\right)}}{\dfrac{1}{N}\dfrac{\sum I\left(hkl\right)}{{I}_{0}\left(hkl\right)}} , $ (1)

    View in Article

    $ \varepsilon =\frac{\Delta d}{{d}_{0}}=\frac{d-{d}_{0}}{{d}_{0}} , $ (2)

    View in Article

    $ \delta =\frac{n}{{D}^{2}} , $ (3)

    View in Article

    $ {S}_{\rm A}=\frac{6\times {10}^{3}}{D \rho } , $ (4)

    View in Article

    $ {\text{%}}\;\rm{of}\;\rm{hysteresis}=\left[\frac{{R}_{\rm{dehumid}}-{R}_{\rm{humid}}}{{R}_{\rm{max}}-{R}_{\rm{min}}}\right]\times 100 {\text{%}} , $ (5)

    View in Article

    $ \begin{array}{l} {{\rm{H}}_{\rm{2}}}{\rm{O }} + {{\rm{O}}^ - } + 2{{\rm{M}}^ + } \to 2\left( {{{\rm{M}}^ + }-{\rm{ O}}{{\rm{H}}^ - }} \right) +{{\rm{e}}^ - }\\[2mm] \qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\;\;\qquad\qquad\, \left( {{\rm{chemisorbed}}\;{\rm{layer}}} \right),\\ {{\rm{M}}^ + } + {{\rm{H}}_{\rm{2}}}{\rm{O }} \to {\rm{ M}} - {\rm{OH }} + {{\rm{H}}^ + }\left( {{\rm{physisorbedlayer}}} \right), \end{array} $ ()

    View in Article

    Dipak L Gapale, Pranav P. Bardapurkar, Sandeep A. Arote, Sanjaykumar Dalvi, Prashant Baviskar, Ratan Y Borse. Humidity sensing properties of spray deposited Fe doped TiO2 thin film[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2021, 42(12): 122805
    Download Citation