Review of Recent Advances in QEPAS-Based Trace Gas Sensing
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Abstract
Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) is an improvement of the conventional microphone-based photoacoustic spectroscopy. In the QEPAS technique, a commercially available millimeter-sized piezoelectric element quartz tuning fork (QTF) is used as an acoustic wave transducer. With the merits of high sensitivity and selectivity, low cost, compactness, and a large dynamic range, QEPAS sensors have been applied widely in gas detection. In this review, recent developments in state-of-the-art QEPAS-based trace gas sensing technique over the past five years are summarized and discussed. The prospect of QEPAS-based gas sensing is also presented.
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OpenAlex topics: Spectroscopy and Laser Applications · Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors · Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
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Affiliations
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Funding
National Natural Science Foundation of China · Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province of China · Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities · Application Technology Research and Development Projects of Harbin
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