Yufei Ma, Guang Yu, Jingbo Zhang, Xin Yu, Rui Sun, Frank K Tittel
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) 2015 Mar 27A sensitive trace gas sensor platform based on quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) is reported. A 1.395 μm continuous wave (CW), distributed feedback pigtailed diode laser was used as the excitation source and H2O was selected as the target analyte. Two kinds of quartz tuning forks (QTFs) with a resonant frequency (f0) of 30.72 kHz and 38 kHz were employed for the first time as an acoustic wave transducer, respectively for QEPAS instead of a standard QTF with a f0 of 32.768 kHz. The QEPAS sensor performance using the three different QTFs was experimentally investigated and theoretically analyzed. A minimum detection limit of 5.9 ppmv and 4.3 ppmv was achieved for f0 of 32.768 kHz and 30.72 kHz, respectively.
Yufei Ma, Guang Yu, Jingbo Zhang, Xin Yu, Rui Sun, Frank K Tittel. Quartz enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy based trace gas sensors using different quartz tuning forks. Sensors (Basel, Switzerland). 2015 Mar 27;15(4):7596-604
PMID: 25825977
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