Sensors (Jul 2015)

Insights on Capacitive Interdigitated Electrodes Coated with MOF Thin Films: Humidity and VOCs Sensing as a Case Study

  • Christos Sapsanis,
  • Hesham Omran,
  • Valeriya Chernikova,
  • Osama Shekhah,
  • Youssef Belmabkhout,
  • Ulrich Buttner,
  • Mohamed Eddaoudi,
  • Khaled N. Salama

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/s150818153
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 8
pp. 18153 – 18166

Abstract

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A prototypical metal-organic framework (MOF), a 2D periodic porous structure based on the assembly of copper ions and benzene dicarboxylate (bdc) ligands (Cu(bdc)·xH2O), was grown successfully as a thin film on interdigitated electrodes (IDEs). IDEs have been used for achieving planar CMOS-compatible low-cost capacitive sensing structures for the detection of humidity and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Accordingly, the resultant IDEs coated with the Cu(bdc)·xH2O thin film was evaluated, for the first time, as a capacitive sensor for gas sensing applications. A fully automated setup, using LabVIEW interfaces to experiment conduction and data acquisition, was developed in order to measure the associated gas sensing performance.

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