The PolySense team has just published a new article on Optics Express reporting on the realization of a novel grooved quartz tuning fork detector for Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic sensing. Rectangular grooves were carved on each prong surface of the QTF to reduce the electrical resistance and enhance the piezoelectric effect without affecting the resonance frequency and Leggi di piùNew Publication on Optics Express[…]
Vincenzo Spagnolo and Pietro Patimisco from the PolySense team have contributed with a full chapter on QEPAS technology in an Elsevier -Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials book entitled: Mid-infrared Optoelectronics Materials, Devices, and Applications, 1st edition. The following link provide access to the article: http://polysense.poliba.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Elsevier-mid-infrared-optoelectronics_qepas-chapter.pdf
Prof. Spagnolo will give a seminar on Nov 7th at the Technical University of Munich on “Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy: basics, merits and real-world applications”.
11/10/2019. Houston. The PolySense team presented at ASTRO project meeting in Rice University the first QEPAS prototype for sensing-on-drone. The technology will open the way to air pollution monitoring exploiting the potentiality of drone systems.
The PolySense team has just published a new article on Analytical Chemistry reporting on a the realization of a QEPAS sensor for simultaneous dual gas detection of Methane/Nitric Oxide and water vapor with sensitivity down to few ppbs, by simultaneously exciting two in-plane flexural vibrational mode of a custom QTF. The following link provide access Leggi di piùNew publication on Analytical Chemistry Journal[…]
The PolySense team has just published a new article on Sensors and Actuators B Chemical reporting on a the realization of a QEPAS sensor for CH4 detection with vibrational to translational (V-T) relaxation self-calibration via simultaneous detection of water vapor concentration, exploiting a custom QTF operating in both the fundamental and first overtone flexural mode. Leggi di piùNew publication on Sensors and Actuators B Chemical[…]
Prof. Vincenzo Spagnolo, Prof. Lei Dong, Prof. Weidong Chen and Dr. Pietro Patimisco are currently accepting submissions for the upcoming Special Issue titled “Optical Spectroscopy, Sensing, and Imaging from UV to THz Range”, which will be published in Sensors MPDI . The Special Issue belongs to the section “Physical Sensors” and is open to both original Leggi di piùSpecial Issue “Optical Spectroscopy, Sensing, and Imaging from UV to THz Range”[…]
Prof. Spagnolo will give a seminar on May 17th at the Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics of the Technical University of Wien on “Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy: basics, merits and new developments”.
The PolySense team has just published a new article on Analytical Chemistry reporting on a the realization of a QEPAS sensor for CO detection with record sensitivity, exploiting an innovative surface grooved QTF. The following link provide access to the article. http://polysense.poliba.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/105_acs-analchem_2019.pdf
Prof. Spagnolo will give a seminar on April 2nd at the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics on “Real-world applications of Quartz-Enhanced Photo Acoustic gas sensing”.