Octupole electrode pattern for tuning forks vibrating at the first overtone mode in quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy

Autor: B. Gross, Alex Cable, Arianna Elefante, Pietro Patimisco, Angelo Sampaolo, Marilena Giglio, Vincenzo Spagnolo, Frank K. Tittel, Verena Mackowiak, Vittorio M. N. Passaro, Hubert Rossmadl, Giansergio Menduni
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Quantum Sensing and Nano Electronics and Photonics XVI.
DOI: 10.1117/12.2507909
Popis: We report on a comparison between two quartz tuning forks (QTFs) employed for quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) having quadrupole and octupole electrode pattern configurations. With respect to the quadrupole, the implementation of the octupole pattern suppresses the fundamental mode and reduces by a factor of ~ 4.4 the electrical resistance for the first overtone mode with negligible variations of the related Q-factors. Both QTFs operating at the first overtone mode were implemented in a QEPAS sensor and the results showed that the octupole configuration provides a ~2.3 signal enhancement factor.
Databáze: OpenAIRE