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To acknowledge the effect of annealing treatment, the devices were fabricated with annealed seed layers in air and argon ambient at 300 \u00b0C and 500 \u00b0C for 1 h. To simulate a vertical device structure, a silver nanowire electrode covered in ZnO nanorod film was placed onto the hydrothermal grown ZnO nanorod film. We found that annealing treatment changes the seed layer\u2019s grain size and defect concentration and is responsible for this phenomenon. The I\u2013V and gas sensing characteristics were dependent on the oxygen defects concentration and porosity of nanorods to react with the target gas. The resulting as-deposited ZnO seed layer shows better sensing response than that annealed in an air and argon environment due to the nanorod morphology and variation in oxygen defect concentration. At room temperature, the devices show good sensing response to NO concentration of 10 ppb and up to 100 ppb. Shortly, these results can be beneficial in the NO breath detection for patients with chronic inflammatory airway disease, such as asthma.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22010390","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,9]],"date-time":"2022-01-09T23:08:26Z","timestamp":1641769706000},"page":"390","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Negative Effects of Annealed Seed Layer on the Performance of ZnO-Nanorods Based Nitric Oxide Gas Sensor"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0631-3871","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pragya","family":"Singh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 10607, Taiwan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9508-5849","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Firman Mangasa","family":"Simanjuntak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Electronics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Li-Lun","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Photonics and Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Tseung-Yuen","family":"Tseng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Electronics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Hsiao-Wen","family":"Zan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Photonics and Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Jinn P.","family":"Chu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 10607, Taiwan"},{"name":"Applied Research Center for Thin-Film Metallic Glass, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 10607, Taiwan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e1915834","DOI":"10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2019.15834","article-title":"Burden of Cause-Specific Mortality Associated with PM2.5 Air Pollution in the United States","volume":"2","author":"Bowe","year":"2019","journal-title":"JAMA Netw. 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