Ultrathin Copper Monosulfide Films for an Optically Semitransparent, Highly Selective Ammonia Chemosensor

Transition-metal sulfides are emerging as promising materials for chemiresistive gas sensorsa field still dominated by semiconducting metal oxides. Despite the availability of materials with tunable electronic, optical, physical, and chemical properties, few studies have moved beyond synthesis to provide strategies for enhancing gas sensing performance through material modification. Here, we present a simple, scalable synthetic strategy for developing an optically semitransparent, flexible NH3 gas sensor with a highly uniform, ultrathin CuS (covellite) active sensing layer. The optical and chemical properties of the CuS were precisely controlled near the percolation threshold of thin-film formation by varying key experimental parameters such as the Cu film thickness (