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We propose new analytical models to strongly simulate and investigate the physical and electrical behavior of the ZCNT sensor in the presence of various gas molecules (CO2, H2O, and CH4). Therefore, we start with the modeling of the energy band structure by acquiring the new energy dispersion relation for the ZCNT and introducing the gas adsorption effects to the band structure model. Then, the electrical conductance of the ZCNT is modeled and formulated while the gas adsorption effect is considered in the conductance model. The band structure analysis indicates that, the semiconducting ZCNT experiences band gap variation after the adsorption of the gases. Furthermore, the bandgap variation influences the conductance of the ZCNT and the results exhibit increments of the ZCNT conductance in the presence of target gases while the minimum conductance shifted upward around the neutrality point. Besides, the I-V characteristics of the sensor are extracted from the conductance model and its variations after adsorption of different gas molecules are monitored and investigated. To verify the accuracy of the proposed models, the conductance model is compared with previous experimental and modeling data and a good consensus is observed. It can be concluded that the proposed analytical models can successfully be applied to predict sensor behavior against different gas molecules.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20020357","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,1,9]],"date-time":"2020-01-09T03:07:11Z","timestamp":1578539231000},"page":"357","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["An Analytical Conductance Model for Gas Detection Based on a Zigzag Carbon Nanotube Sensor"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7947-3243","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ali","family":"Hosseingholipourasl","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"UTM-MIMOS Center of Excellence in Telecommunication Technology, School of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai 81310, Johor, Malaysia"}]},{"given":"Sharifah","family":"Hafizah Syed Ariffin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"UTM-MIMOS Center of Excellence in Telecommunication Technology, School of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai 81310, Johor, Malaysia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4928-406X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohammad Taghi","family":"Ahmadi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Computational Physics, Institute for Computational Science and Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City 758307, Vietnam"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1820-6379","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Seyed Saeid","family":"Rahimian Koloor","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation, Technical University of Liberec, Studentska 2, 461 17 Liberec, Czech Republic"}]},{"given":"Michal","family":"Petr\u016f","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation, Technical University of Liberec, Studentska 2, 461 17 Liberec, Czech Republic"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0026-9133","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Afiq","family":"Hamzah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai 81310, Johor, Malaysia"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,1,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"295","DOI":"10.1016\/j.measurement.2016.02.046","article-title":"Analytical Assessment of Carbon allotropes for Gas Sensor Applications","volume":"92","author":"Akbari","year":"2016","journal-title":"Measurement"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1248","DOI":"10.1002\/cplu.201600478","article-title":"Carbon nanotube based gas sensors toward breath analysis","volume":"81","author":"Ellis","year":"2016","journal-title":"ChemPlusChem"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Drewniak, S., Muzyka, R., Stolarczyk, A., Pustelny, T., Kotyczka-Mora\u0144ska, M., and Setkiewicz, M. 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