Sensitive detection of formaldehyde using an interband cascade laser near 3.6 μm
Abstract
Here, we report the development of a formaldehyde (H 2CO) trace gas sensor using a continuous wave (CW), thermoelectrically-cooled (TEC), distributed-feedback interband cascade laser (DFB-ICL) at 3.6 μm. Wavelength modulation spectroscopy was used to detect the second harmonic spectra of a strong H 2CO absorption feature centered at 2778.5 cm -1 (3599 nm) in its ν 1 fundamental vibrational band. A compact and novel multipass cell (7.6-cm physical length and 32-ml sampling volume) was implemented to achieve an effective optical path length of 3.75 m. A minimum detection limit of 6 parts per billion (ppb) at an optimum gas pressure of 200 Torr was achieved with a 1-s data acquisition time. An Allan-Werle deviation analysis was performed to investigate the long-term stability of the sensor system and a 1.5 ppb minimum detectable concentration could be achieved by averaging up to 140 s. Absorption interference eeffects from atmospheric H 2O (2%) and CH 4(5 ppm) were also analyzed in this work and proved to be insignificant for the current sensor configuration.
- Authors:
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- Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong (China). Dept. of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
- Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E); National Science Foundation (NSF); French National Research Agency (ANR); Robert Welch Foundation; Direct Grant for Research (China); Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong (China)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1435803
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-MAXION-00538-15
Journal ID: ISSN 0925-4005; PII: S0925400515301350
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AR0000538; C001-4055041; RNE-p2-15; C001-8115052; C-0586
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Sensors and Actuators. B, Chemical
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 221; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0925-4005
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; Formaldehyde; Absorption spectroscopy; Interband cascade laser; Trace gas detection
Citation Formats
Ren, Wei, Luo, Longqiang, and Tittel, Frank K. Sensitive detection of formaldehyde using an interband cascade laser near 3.6 μm. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.snb.2015.07.078.
Ren, Wei, Luo, Longqiang, & Tittel, Frank K. Sensitive detection of formaldehyde using an interband cascade laser near 3.6 μm. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2015.07.078
Ren, Wei, Luo, Longqiang, and Tittel, Frank K. Thu .
"Sensitive detection of formaldehyde using an interband cascade laser near 3.6 μm". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2015.07.078. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1435803.
@article{osti_1435803,
title = {Sensitive detection of formaldehyde using an interband cascade laser near 3.6 μm},
author = {Ren, Wei and Luo, Longqiang and Tittel, Frank K.},
abstractNote = {Here, we report the development of a formaldehyde (H2CO) trace gas sensor using a continuous wave (CW), thermoelectrically-cooled (TEC), distributed-feedback interband cascade laser (DFB-ICL) at 3.6 μm. Wavelength modulation spectroscopy was used to detect the second harmonic spectra of a strong H2CO absorption feature centered at 2778.5 cm-1 (3599 nm) in its ν1 fundamental vibrational band. A compact and novel multipass cell (7.6-cm physical length and 32-ml sampling volume) was implemented to achieve an effective optical path length of 3.75 m. A minimum detection limit of 6 parts per billion (ppb) at an optimum gas pressure of 200 Torr was achieved with a 1-s data acquisition time. An Allan-Werle deviation analysis was performed to investigate the long-term stability of the sensor system and a 1.5 ppb minimum detectable concentration could be achieved by averaging up to 140 s. Absorption interference eeffects from atmospheric H2O (2%) and CH4(5 ppm) were also analyzed in this work and proved to be insignificant for the current sensor configuration.},
doi = {10.1016/j.snb.2015.07.078},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1435803},
journal = {Sensors and Actuators. B, Chemical},
issn = {0925-4005},
number = C,
volume = 221,
place = {United States},
year = {2015},
month = {12}
}
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