A Miniaturized QEPAS Trace Gas Sensor with a 3D-Printed Acoustic Detection Module

A 3D printing technique was introduced to a quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) sensor and is reported for the first time. The acoustic detection module (ADM) was designed and fabricated using the 3D printing technique and the ADM volume was compressed significantly. Furthermore, a sm...

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Autores principales: Yang, Xiaotao, Xiao, Youhong, Ma, Yufei, He, Ying, Tittel, Frank K.
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Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5580163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28758963
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17081750
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author Yang, Xiaotao
Xiao, Youhong
Ma, Yufei
He, Ying
Tittel, Frank K.
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Xiao, Youhong
Ma, Yufei
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description A 3D printing technique was introduced to a quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) sensor and is reported for the first time. The acoustic detection module (ADM) was designed and fabricated using the 3D printing technique and the ADM volume was compressed significantly. Furthermore, a small grin lens was used for laser focusing and facilitated the beam adjustment in the 3D-printed ADM. A quartz tuning fork (QTF) with a low resonance frequency of 30.72 kHz was used as the acoustic wave transducer and acetylene (C(2)H(2)) was chosen as the analyte. The reported miniaturized QEPAS trace gas sensor is useful in actual sensor applications.
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spelling pubmed-55801632017-09-06 A Miniaturized QEPAS Trace Gas Sensor with a 3D-Printed Acoustic Detection Module Yang, Xiaotao Xiao, Youhong Ma, Yufei He, Ying Tittel, Frank K. Sensors (Basel) Article A 3D printing technique was introduced to a quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) sensor and is reported for the first time. The acoustic detection module (ADM) was designed and fabricated using the 3D printing technique and the ADM volume was compressed significantly. Furthermore, a small grin lens was used for laser focusing and facilitated the beam adjustment in the 3D-printed ADM. A quartz tuning fork (QTF) with a low resonance frequency of 30.72 kHz was used as the acoustic wave transducer and acetylene (C(2)H(2)) was chosen as the analyte. The reported miniaturized QEPAS trace gas sensor is useful in actual sensor applications. MDPI 2017-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5580163/ /pubmed/28758963 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17081750 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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A Miniaturized QEPAS Trace Gas Sensor with a 3D-Printed Acoustic Detection Module
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title_short A Miniaturized QEPAS Trace Gas Sensor with a 3D-Printed Acoustic Detection Module
title_sort miniaturized qepas trace gas sensor with a 3d-printed acoustic detection module
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5580163/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17081750
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