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

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

doi:10.3390/s19183825

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

Sensors (Basel). 2019 Sep 4;19(18):3825. doi: 10.3390/s19183825.

Authors

Huadan Zheng^{1

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3}, Haoyang Lin¹, Lei Dong⁴, Yihua Liu¹, Pietro Patimisco⁵, John Zweck⁶, Ali Mozumder⁶, Angelo Sampaolo⁵, Vincenzo Spagnolo⁵, Bincheng Huang¹, Jieyuan Tang¹, Linpeng Dong¹, Wenguo Zhu¹, Jianhui Yu⁷, Zhe Chen¹, Frank K Tittel³

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information and Sensing Technologies of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Department of Optoelectronic Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Laser Spectroscopy & Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China.
³ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
⁴ State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Laser Spectroscopy & Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China. donglei@sxu.edu.cn.
⁵ PolySense Lab-Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica, Politecnico di Bari and Università degli Studi di Bari, Via Amendola 173, 70126 Bari, Italy.
⁶ Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA.
⁷ Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information and Sensing Technologies of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Department of Optoelectronic Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China. kensomyu@gmail.com.

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.

Keywords: custom tuning fork; photoacoustic spectroscopy; quartz tuning fork; quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy.

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