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The materials were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, transmittance electron microscopy, and X-ray diffractometry, and gas-sensing properties were measured using ethanol and acetone as probes. The results showed that compared with individual gas sensors, the response of the sensor array was greatly enhanced and similar to the gas response product of the p- and n-type gas sensors. Specifically, the highly sensitive CdO\/LaFeO3 and CdO\/Sn-ZnO sensor array had a high response of 21 to 1 ppm ethanol and 14 to 1 ppm acetone, with detection limits of &lt;0.1 ppm. The results show the effect of sensor array integration by matching the two sensor resistances, facilitating the detection of gas at a low concentration.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18082710","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,17]],"date-time":"2018-08-17T10:54:25Z","timestamp":1534503265000},"page":"2710","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Highly Sensitive p + n Metal Oxide Sensor Array for Low-Concentration Gas Detection"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Jianghua","family":"Luo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Navy Submarine Academy, Qingdao 266199, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yishan","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Navy Submarine Academy, Qingdao 266199, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Feng","family":"Xiao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Navy Submarine Academy, Qingdao 266199, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xin","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Navy Submarine Academy, Qingdao 266199, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zheng","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, North Third Ring Road 15, Beijing 100029, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"100","DOI":"10.1016\/j.snb.2009.01.023","article-title":"New perspectives of gas sensor technology","volume":"138","author":"Yamazoe","year":"2009","journal-title":"Sens. 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