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

Overview

Journal Sensors (Basel)

Publisher MDPI

Specialty Biotechnology

Date 2019 Sep 7

PMID 31487884

Citations 1

Authors

Huadan Zheng

Haoyang Lin

Lei Dong

Yihua Liu

Pietro Patimisco

John Zweck

Ali Mozumder

Angelo Sampaolo

Vincenzo Spagnolo

Bincheng Huang

Jieyuan Tang

Linpeng Dong

Wenguo Zhu

Jianhui Yu

Zhe Chen

Frank K Tittel

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Abstract

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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