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A simple, low-cost, and home-built electrostatic spray deposition (ESD) system with the stable cone-jet mode was used to deposit nickel oxide (NiO) thin films on glass substrates kept at temperature of 400 °C as the primary precursor solution of 0.1 M concentration hydrated nickel chloride was dissolved in isopropyl alcohol. Electrical measurements showed that these films were of n-type conductivity while their resistance response to hydrogen flow in air ambient was varied by 2.81% with the rise and recovery time of 48 s and 40 s, respectively.
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Jamal, R.K., Aadim, K.A., Al-Zaidi, Q.G. et al. Hydrogen gas sensors based on electrostatically spray deposited nickel oxide thin film structures. Photonic Sens 5, 235–240 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13320-015-0253-0
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