The application of compact inexpensive trace gas sensor technology to a mid-infrared nitric oxide (NO) detectoion using intracavity quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (I-QEPAS) is reported. A minimum detection limit of 4.8 ppbv within a 30 ms integration time was demonstrated by using a room-temperature, continuous-wave, distributed-feedback quantum cascade laser (QCL) emitting at 5.263...

An artificial olfactory system (or “electronic nose”) has been developed to investigate the interactions between polymer-modified sensors with odorant vapors from the headspace of primary alcohol samples. Complementary pairs of polymer-coated quartz crystal microbalance sensors and polymer/carbon black-coated microresistance sensors have been used to produce a characteristic value for the odora...

This paper presents an efficient scheme to design the most used biosensor Quartz crystal nanobalance (QCN). The main characteristic of QCN is very mass sensitivity. It means a little variation of deposited mass on the surface of QCN and it will cause the change of thickness-shear-mode resonant frequency. An electro-mechanical coupled-field 3D finite element method is applied to analyze the reso...

A method is developed for predicting the radiant heat ux distribution produced by tungsten lament , tubular fused-quartz envelope heating systems with re BLOCKINectors. The method is an application of Monte Carlo simulation, which takes the form of a random walk or ray tracing scheme. The method is applied to four systems of increasing complexity, including a single lamp without a re BLOCKINect...

Alkali-silica reaction (ASR) is considered as a potential aging-related degradation phenomenon that might impair the durability of concrete in nuclear containments. The objective of this paper is the application of digital analysis of microscopic images to identify the content and size of quartz grains in heavy mineral aggregates. The range of investigation covered magnetite and hematite aggreg...

This paper provides our first forensic quartz grain surface texture analysis of soils from the southern hemisphere. Sediment and soil samples were collected from a simulated crime reconstruction in the environs of Canberra, Australia, which comprised a murder site, an alibi site and a body deposition site. Following the successful application of quartz grain surface texture analysis from many c...

Single crystals of compounds of calcium gallium germanate (CGG) structure with the general formula A3BC3D2O14, have been discussed as promising new materials for acoustic device applications. Since the CGG (or langasite) family belongs to the same acentric crystal class 32 as quartz similar acoustic properties can be expected. In particular, temperature compensated crystal cuts were predicted w...