{"id":203483,"date":"2025-01-10T04:46:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T10:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/photoacoustic-spectroscopy-approach-achieves-real-time-detection-of-low-gas-concentrations"},"modified":"2025-01-10T04:46:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T10:46:47","slug":"photoacoustic-spectroscopy-approach-achieves-real-time-detection-of-low-gas-concentrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/photoacoustic-spectroscopy-approach-achieves-real-time-detection-of-low-gas-concentrations","title":{"rendered":"Photoacoustic spectroscopy approach achieves real-time detection of low gas concentrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nbzAn9slxOU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a new method for quickly detecting and identifying very low concentrations of gases. The new approach, called coherently controlled quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy, could form the basis for highly sensitive real-time sensors for applications such as environmental monitoring, breath analysis and chemical process control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost gases are present in small amounts, so detecting gases at low concentrations is important in a wide variety of industries and applications,\u201d said research team leader Simon Angstenberger from the University of Stuttgart in Germany. \u201cUnlike other trace gas detection methods that rely on photoacoustics, ours is not limited to specific gases and does not require prior knowledge of the gas that might be present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <i>Optica<\/i>, the researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/opg.optica.org\/optica\/abstract.cfm?doi=10.1364\/OPTICA.544448\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> the acquisition of a complete methane spectrum spanning 3,050 to 3,450 nanometers in just three seconds, a feat that would typically take around 30 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a new method for quickly detecting and identifying very low concentrations of gases. The new approach, called coherently controlled quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy, could form the basis for highly sensitive real-time sensors for applications such as environmental monitoring, breath analysis and chemical process control. \u201cMost gases are present in small amounts, so detecting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}