Fig. 1. Commercially available standard quartz tuning forks with a resonant frequency of 32 kHz
Fig. 2. QEPAS spectrophones with (a) on-beam and (b) off-beam configurations[17]
Fig. 3. Quartz enhanced photoacoustic detection module for mid-infrared region. (a) CAD model; (b) prototype
Fig. 4. Typical quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopic sensor system
Fig. 5. Principle of modulation cancellation method and experimental setup[45]
Fig. 6. (a) BF-QEPAS principle; (b) waveforms of scanning, piezoelectric and beat frequency signals[49]
Fig. 7. QEPAS spectrophone based on two QTFs[13]
Fig. 8. (a) Configuration #1 of QEPAS spectrophone based on two QTFs; (b) configuration #2 of QEPAS spectrophone based on two QTFs[13]
Fig. 9. Schematic of double acoustic micro-resonator spectrophone[25]
Fig. 10. Schematic of the I-QEPAS optical path configuration[53]
Fig. 11. Schematic of the evanescent wave QEPAS configuration[56]
Fig. 12. (a) Definition of length (Lp), width (W), and thickness (T) of tuning fork arm; (b) size comparison of the standard and the 6 customized quartz tuning forks[59]
Fig. 13. Pressure distributions in acoustic resonator with (a) a large and (b) a small gaps in the middle[61]
Fig. 14. Schematic of single-tube on-beam QEPAS spectrophone[62]
Fig. 15. Single-tube on-beam QEPAS spectrophone operating in overtone resonant mode[64]
Parameter | QTF standard | QTF#1 | QTF#2 | QTF#3 | QTF#4 | QTF#5 | QTF#6 |
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Lp /mm | 3.0 | 3.5 | 10.0 | 10.0 | 11.0 | 17.0 | 16.8 | W /mm | 0.34 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.50 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.8 | T /mm | 0.35 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.4 | Prong space /mm | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 1.0 | f0(vac) /Hz | 32743.61 | 13746.59 | 7577.81 | 8419.79 | 3479.25 | 2913.42 | 4176.48 | f0(exp) /Hz | 32762.84 | 14049.20 | 7230.27 | 8439.51 | 3456.69 | 2869.07 | 4250.01 | Q0 | 88719 | 10862 | 36564 | 47020 | 23282 | 34800 | 50130 | Qatm | 13690 | 3980 | 8400 | 13150 | 3880 | 5210 | 17850 | R /kΩ | 94.6 | 1913.3 | 301.7 | 455.6 | 990.2 | 810.1 | 194.1 |
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Table 1. Parameters of standard and 6 customized tuning forks