Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy: A Review [PDF]
Sensors, 2014 A detailed review on the development of quartz-enhanced photoacoustic sensors (QEPAS) for the sensitive and selective quantification of molecular trace gas species with resolved spectroscopic features is reported.
Pietro Patimisco +3 more
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Quartz Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy on Solid Samples [PDF]
SensorsQuartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy (QEPAS) is a technique in which the sound wave is detected by a quartz tuning fork (QTF). It enables particularly high specificity with respect to the excitation frequency and is well known for an ...
Judith Falkhofen +3 more
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Dual-comb quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy [PDF]
Photoacoustics, 2022 Photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS) using two optical combs is a new-born technique, offering appealing features, including broad optical bandwidths, high resolutions, fast acquisition speeds, and wavelength-independent photoacoustic detection, for chemical
Xinyi Ren +6 more
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Ppb-level gas detection using on-beam quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy based on a 28 kHz tuning fork [PDF]
Photoacoustics, 2022 In this paper, an on-beam quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) sensor based on a custom quartz tuning fork (QTF) acting as a photoacoustic transducer, was realized and tested. The QTF is characterized by a resonance frequency of 28 kHz, ~15%
Haoyang Lin +12 more
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Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy for One-Health [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2023 We report on the development of Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy (QEPAS) technology to detect 8 different air pollutants, namely CH4, NO2, CO2, N2O, CO, NO, SO2 and NH3, with the same acoustic detection module and interchangeable laser sources,
Patimisco Pietro +9 more
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Quartz Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Based on a Custom Quartz Tuning Fork [PDF]
Sensors, 2019 We have designed and fabricated a custom quartz tuning fork (QTF) with a reduced fundamental frequency; a larger gap between the prongs; and the best quality factor in air at atmospheric conditions ever reported, to our knowledge.
Maxime Duquesnoy +5 more
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Spatially engineered optical–acoustic matching in quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy [PDF]
PhotoacousticsQuartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) offers high sensitivity for trace-gas detection, but its performance is often limited by a spatial mismatch between distributed photoacoustic excitation and the intrinsic sensitivity region of the quartz
Ruyue Cui +10 more
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Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy with Right-Angle Prism [PDF]
Sensors, 2016 A right-angle prism was used to enhance the acoustic signal of a quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) system. The incident laser beam was parallelly inverted by the right-angle prism and passed through the gap between two tuning fork prongs
Yongning Liu +5 more
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Monolithic Double Resonator for Quartz Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy [PDF]
Applied Sciences, 2021 A new approach for Quartz Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy is presented, based on an acoustic excitation from the outside of the prongs of a quartz tuning fork, to increase the sensitivity of the sensor.
Roman Rousseau +5 more
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Influence of Tuning Fork Resonance Properties on Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Performance [PDF]
Sensors, 2019 A detailed investigation of the influence of quartz tuning forks (QTFs) resonance properties on the performance of quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) exploiting QTFs as acousto-electric transducers is reported.
Huadan Zheng +15 more
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