Abstract
Quartz crystal tuning forks (QTFs) resonators are key components for timing and frequency measurements, due to their high stability, high-quality factors and low power consumptions. Thanks to their piezoelectric properties, QTFs are employed as sensitive element in many fields and systems such as atomic force microscopy, near-field and microwave microscopy, and mass/viscosity sensor. Since 2002, QTFs are also widely used as a sharply resonant acoustic transducer to detect weak photoacoustic excitation for Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy (QEPAS). Among most sensitive optical techniques, QEPAS was demonstrated as the leading-edge technology for addressing these application requirements, providing also modularity, ruggedness, portability and allowing the use of extremely small volumes. QEPAS technique does not require an optical detector, it is wavelength independent, it is immune to environmental noise and can operate in a wide range of temperature and pressure. These factors, together with its proven reliability and ruggedness, represent the main distinct advantages with respect to other laser-based techniques for environmental monitoring and in situ detection. Starting from the basic physical principles governing the QTF physics, I will review the main results achieved by exploiting custom QTFs for QEPAS sensing and as photodetector in LITES setup, with a main focus on real-world applications.
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