New Insights into Photoacoustic Spectroscopy and Its Applications

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling".

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Dear Colleagues,

Photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS), as a powerful technique in gas sensing, has attracted more attention and been applied in a broad range of applications, including atmospheric monitoring and industrial process control, due to its advantages of high sensitivity, fast response, good stability, and small gas absorption cell volume. PAS sensors rely on the detection of acoustic signals resulting from the light absorption of a modulated laser radiation by the target species. Various photoacoustic approaches have been developed by using different acoustic transducers including condenser and electret microphones, quartz tuning forks (QTFs), micromachined cantilevers, microelectromechanical systems (MEMSs), etc. Different photoacoustic cell structures have been reported to be capable of improving photoacoustic signal and suppressing noise to further enhance the sensor performance. PAS sensors have one unique advantage—its performance is proportional to the excitation optical power. Many methods have been investigated to build up high optical power in the PAS cell to improve the sensitivity of PAS gas detection. Therefore, various photoacoustic techniques with different acoustic transducers and PAS cell structures have been reported with ultra-high sensitivity of parts-per-trillion. The purpose of this Special Issue is to concentrate on new developments in photoacoustic sensors with novel acoustic transducers, as well as novel PAS cell structures developed for various applications including atmospheric monitoring and industrial process control.

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Keywords

  • absorption spectroscopy
  • photoacoustic spectroscopy
  • trace gas detection
  • photoacoustic enhancement

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Off-Beam Acoustic Micro-Resonator for QEPAS Sensor with a Custom Quartz Tuning Fork
by Yong Wang, Gang Wang, Jiapeng Wang, Chaofan Feng, Qingyuan Tian, Yifan Chen, Ruyue Cui, Hongpeng Wu and Lei Dong
Atmosphere 2025, 16(3), 352; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16030352 - 20 Mar 2025
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Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) has shown great promise for monitoring greenhouse gases and pollutants with a high measurement accuracy and limit of detection. A QEPAS sensor, which can achieve high photoacoustic signal gain without requiring the laser beam to pass through the two [...] Read more.
Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) has shown great promise for monitoring greenhouse gases and pollutants with a high measurement accuracy and limit of detection. A QEPAS sensor, which can achieve high photoacoustic signal gain without requiring the laser beam to pass through the two prongs of a quartz tuning fork (QTF), is reported. A custom QTF with a resonant frequency of 7.2 kHz and a quality factor of 8406 was employed as a sound detection element, and the parameters of the acoustic micro-resonator (AmR) in the off-beam QEPAS spectrophone were optimized. A signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain of 16 was achieved based on the optimal AmR dimensions compared to the bare custom QTF. Water vapor (H2O) was detected utilizing the QEPAS sensor equipped with the off-beam spectrophone, achieving a minimum detection limit (MDL) of 4 ppm with a normalized noise equivalent absorption coefficient (NNEA) of 5.7 × 10−8 cm−1·W·Hz−1/2 at an integration time of 300 ms. Full article
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