Polyoxometalate electron acceptor incorporated improved properties of Cu2ZnSnS4-based room temperature NO2 gas sensor

In this work, a Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 (CZTS)-based gas sensor incorporated by polyoxometalate(POMs) electron acceptor were synthesized by hydrothermal method . For the first time we investigated on the application of CZTS in NO 2 sensor and the influence of POMs incorporating on gas sensing performances of CZTS sensor. As a result, the gas sensing response could be remarkably improved to 6.12 times by incorporating POMs compared with pure CZTS. This is mainly attributed to introducing POMs into CZTS could reduce electron-hole recombination and facilitate electrons transfer. The research results exhibit the highest gas sensing response of CZTS-based gas sensor up to now. This research reveals a new idea for developing high-performance gas sensors based on CZTS by introducing POMs.