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Quartz tuning forks (QTFs) have been successfully employed as piezoelectric optoacoustic transducers in a quartz enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopic sensor (QEPAS) for sensitive and selective gas sensing applications. Stainless tubes are acoustically coupled with the QTF and act as an acoustic micro-resonator (AmR) to confine the acoustic waves and enhance the QEPAS signal [1]. Very recently, we...
An infrared dual-gas sensor system for the simultaneous detection and monitoring of methane (CH4) and ethane (C2H6) at parts-per-billion by volume (ppbv) concentration levels was developed using two room temperature, distributed feedback interband cascade lasers, and two miniature multipass cells with an effective absorption length of 54.6 m. Laser direct absorption spectroscopy was used to detect...
The development and performance of a continuous wave (CW), thermoelectrically cooled (TEC) quantum cascade laser (EC-QCL) based sensor for quantitative measurements of nitric oxide (NO) concentrations in exhaled breath will be reported. Human breath contains ~ 400 different chemical species, usually at ultra low concentration levels, which can serve as biomarkers for the identification and monitoring...
The effect of speed of sound (SoS) on the performance of quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) sensor was investigated. Methods to correct QEPAS signal and to minimize effect of SoS by the carrier gas was studied.
A quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy based gas sensor was optimized to improve its compact spectrophone design and performance. The impact of a 2-tube microresonator geometry on the detected signal and signal to noise ratio (SNR) was investigated. Experimental studies demonstrate that the l=4.4 mm long tubes (ID=0.5 mm) result in a significantly enhanced SNR.
Quantum cascade laser based breath sensor platform for medical applications employing a quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy technique is reported. The detection sensitivity for exhaled ammonia is at <10 ppbv level with 1 s time resolution.
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