Octupole electrode pattern for tuning forks vibrating at the first overtone mode in quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy

We report on a comparison between two quartz tuning forks (QTFs) employed for quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) having quadrupole and octupole electrode pattern configurations. With respect to the quadrupole, the implementation of the octupole pattern suppresses the fundamental mode and reduces by a factor of ~ 4.4 the electrical resistance for the first overtone mode with negligible variations of the related Q-factors. Both QTFs operating at the first overtone mode were implemented in a QEPAS sensor and the results showed that the octupole configuration provides a ~2.3 signal enhancement factor.

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