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Quartz-enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Exploiting Low-frequency Tuning Forks As a Tool to Measure the Vibrational Relaxation Rate in Gas Species

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Journal Photoacoustics
Date 2020 Dec 28
PMID 33364164
Citations 25
Authors
Stefano Dello Russo
Angelo Sampaolo
Pietro Patimisco
Giansergio Menduni
Marilena Giglio
Christine Hoelzl
Vittorio M N Passaro
Hongpeng Wu
Lei Dong
Vincenzo Spagnolo
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Abstract

We demonstrated that quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) is an efficient tool to measure the vibrational relaxation rate of gas species, employing quartz tuning forks (QTFs) as sound detectors. Based on the dependence of the QTF resonance frequency on the resonator geometry, a wide range of acoustic frequencies with narrow detection bandwidth was probed. By measuring the QEPAS signal of the target analyte as well as the resonance properties of different QTFs as a function of the gas pressure, the relaxation time can be retrieved. This approach has been tested in the near infrared range by measuring the CH ( ) vibrational relaxation rate in a mixture of 1% CH, 0.15 % HO in N, and the HO ( ) relaxation rate in a mixture of 0.5 % HO in N. Relaxation times of 3.2 ms Torr and 0.25 ms Torr were estimated for CH and HO, respectively, in excellent agreement with values reported in literature.

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