Influence of Tuning Fork Resonance Properties on Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Performance

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. The performance of two commercial QTFs with the same resonance frequency...

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Autores principales: Zheng, Huadan, Lin, Haoyang, Dong, Lei, Liu, Yihua, Patimisco, Pietro, Zweck, John, Mozumder, Ali, Sampaolo, Angelo, Spagnolo, Vincenzo, Huang, Bincheng, Tang, Jieyuan, Dong, Linpeng, Zhu, Wenguo, Yu, Jianhui, Chen, Zhe, Tittel, Frank K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6767083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31487884
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19183825
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Sumario: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. The performance of two commercial QTFs with the same resonance frequency (32.7 KHz) but different geometries and two custom QTFs with lower resonance frequencies (2.9 KHz and 7.2 KHz) were compared and discussed. The results demonstrated that the fundamental resonance frequency as well as the quality factor and the electrical resistance were strongly inter-dependent on the QTF prongs geometry. Even if the resonance frequency was reduced, the quality factor must be kept as high as possible and the electrical resistance as low as possible in order to guarantee high QEPAS performance.

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