Sensor employing internal reference electrode
AssigneeTechnical University of Denmark
InventorsQiang Hu, Karin Vels Hansen, Mogens Mogensen
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Abstract
The present invention concerns a novel internal reference electrode as well as a novel sensing electrode for an improved internal reference oxygen sensor and the sensor employing same.
Claims18
An Internal Reference Oxygen Sensor (IROS) comprising a composite internal reference electrode, a sensing electrode and a solid electrolyte, wherein the composite internal reference electrode comprises a binary mixture metal/metal oxide and a further material or material mixture providing ion conductivity and electron conductivity as electrode material, and where the structure of the composite internal reference electrode material is a three dimensional network structure, where particles of the binary metal/metal oxide and particles of the further material or material mixture providing ion conductivity and electron conductivity as electrode material are finely dispersed within the entire electrode.
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