Insights on capacitive interdigitated electrodes coated with MOF thin films: Humidity and VOCs sensing as a case study

Christos Sapsanis, et al., "Insights on capacitive interdigitated electrodes coated with MOF thin films: Humidity and VOCs sensing as a case study." Sensors 15 (8), 2015, 18153.

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)· xH 2 O), 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)· xH 2 O 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. View Full-Text