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Trace-Gas Detection with Off-Beam Quartz Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy

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Trace-gas sensors have a wide range of potential applications such as environmental monitoring, climate research, agriculture, workplace safety, medical diagnostics, and industrial process control. A recently introduced technique called quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) is described. QEPAS use a quartz tuning fork as an acoustic transducer for a photoacoustic signal induced in an absorbing gas by modulated optical radiation. Advantages of the QEPAS compared to conventional photoacoustic spectroscopy include immunity to environmental acoustic noise and ultra-small sample volume. Trace gases of \(\hbox {CH}_{4}, \hbox {H}_{2}\hbox {O}\), and \(\hbox {NO}_{2}\) were monitored with a novel off-beam QEPAS approach and are described in detail.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41175036 and 41205120) and the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui province of China (No. 11040606M147).

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  1. Laboratory of Atmospheric Physico-Chemistry, Anhui Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, China

    Kun Liu, Lei Wang, Tu Tan, Weijun Zhang & Xiaoming Gao

  2. Laboratoire de Physicochimie de l’Atmosphère, CNRS UMR 8101, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, 189A, Av. Maurice Schumann, 59140, Dunkerque, France

    Weidong Chen

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Liu, K., Wang, L., Tan, T. et al. Trace-Gas Detection with Off-Beam Quartz Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy. Int J Thermophys 36, 1066–1073 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10765-014-1691-4

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