Abstract. In this work, photo-electrochemical etching process of n-type Silicon of resistivity(10 Ω.cm) and (100) orientation , using two illumination sources IR and violet wavelength in HF acid have been used to produce PSi gas detection device. The fabrication process was carried out at a fixed etching current density of 25mA/cm2and at different etching time (5, 10, 15 and 20) min and (8, 16, 24, and 30) min. Two configurations of gas sensor configuration planer and sandwich have been made and investigated. The morphological properties have been studied using SEM ,the FTIR measurement show that the (Si-Hx) and (Si-O-Si) absorption peak were increases with increasing etching time ,and Photoluminescence properties of PSi layer show decrease in the peak of PL peak toward the violet shift. The gas detection process is made on the CO2 gas at different operating temperature and fixed gas concentration. In the planner structure, the gas sensing was measured through, the change in the resistance readout as a function to the exposure time, while for sandwich structure J-V characteristic have been made to determine the sensitivity.

Pure Cr 2 O 3 and NiO/Cr 2 O 3 nanocomposite were luckily synthesized by simple hydrothermal technique. X-ray films diffraction (XRD), Filed Emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), were used to research the crystalline structures, surface morphologies and nanostructures, and element components and their valences of the assynthesized samples. Moreover, gas sensors based on the synthesized pure Cr 2 O 3 and NiO/ Cr 2 O 3 composites were fabricated and their sensing behavior, to NH 3. Gas sensing experiments reference that the NiO/ Cr 2 O 3 composites showed much higher gas response and lower working temperature than those of pure Cr 2 O 3 . These results assure that the as-synthesized NiO/ Cr 2 O 3 composites a favorable NH 3 sensing material.