A Study of High-Sensitivity Electro-Resistance Type Pre-Annealing ZnO-Doped CsPbBr₃ Perovskite Acetone Sensors

In this work, acetone gas sensors were fabricated using pre-annealing metal oxide zinc oxide (pa-ZnO)-doped perovskite cesium lead bromide (CsPbBr₃). The ZnO nanopowder, before it was doped into CsPbBr₃ solution, was first put into a furnace to anneal at different temperatures, and formed the pa-ZnO. The properties of pa-ZnO were different from ZnO. The optimized doping conditions were 2 mg of pa-ZnO nanopowder and pre-annealing at 300 °C. Under these conditions, the highest sensitivity (gas signal current-to-air background current ratio) of the ZnO-doped CsPbBr₃ perovskite acetone sensor was 1726. In addition, for the limit test, 100 ppm was the limit of detection of the ZnO-doped CsPbBr₃ perovskite acetone sensor and the sensitivity was 101.