A new structure of gas sensor is presented in this paper. The new type of gas sensor is composed of gas sensing part and a special load resistance as a whole element. Thus
the output of this element can be obtained easily without outer sample resistance. The thermal stability of existing gas sensors and new type of gas sensors are analysed theoretically and experimentally. The results show that the new type of structure element has better thermal stability. Here
only the results of ethanol sensors are reported
but this structure is applicable to other kinds of semiconductor gas sensors.