Role of carbon material in current sensor era

Title : Role of carbon material in current sensor era

Abstract:

Hydrogen (H₂) is gaining public attention as one of the candidates for the next-generation of energy. Environmentally friendly H₂ is expected to make a major contribution to sustainable societies.  However, the detection of H₂ gas is important in nuclear power stations, coal mines, and semiconductor manufacturing industry. The presence of H₂ can be used to indicate a fire in its early state or to detect impending transformer failure in electric power plants. So, to avoid any accident, designing of new class of H2 gas sensor is important for the society. In past few decades, various materials such as semiconductor, carbon nanomaterials, metal nanoparticles and so on were explored as sensing materials for the detection of low concentration of H2 gas at room temperature conditions. Among these, carbon nanomaterials are widely investigated because of they are enormously sensitive to H2 at room temperature conditions. In recent years, carbon materials are widely investigated because of their extraordinary chemical, electrical and physical properties. In addition, carbon material has potential application in gas sensor technology.

Biography:

Dr. Shivani Dhall has been working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, D.A.V. College, Jalandhar, since July 2018. Previously, she worked as a NPDF in Department of Physics, IITD. During her PhD, she worked in CEN, Electrical Department, IIT Bombay. She got best INUP project award from IIT Bombay in 2015. In 2018, she awarded with CSIR Nehru and DS Kothari Fellowships. In 2019, She received TARE project under DST for continue her research work. She is working on carbon materials, nanoparticles and their device fabrication using lithography technique for gas sensing, photo-sensor and interconnected applications. She is reviewer of many SCI journals. She has 21 SCI Journals publications.