A resonant single frequency molecular detector with high sensitivity and selectivity for gas mixtures

Air quality control is an important task in prevention of human exposure to toxic and harmful gases and requires reliable gas sensors. During last decades many gas sensing mechanisms, based on different physical or chemical interactions with sensitive materials, have been developed, but the problem...

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Published in:Scientific reports 2020-01, Vol.10 (1), p.1537, Article 1537
Main Authors: Branković, Zorica, Rostovtsev, Yuri
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Gas detectors
Gases
Quality control
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Summary:Air quality control is an important task in prevention of human exposure to toxic and harmful gases and requires reliable gas sensors. During last decades many gas sensing mechanisms, based on different physical or chemical interactions with sensitive materials, have been developed, but the problem of precise analysis of gas mixtures still remains. The problem can be solved by introducing new sensing mechanism based on an adiabatically changing electric field interacting with the rotational structure of the molecules with dipole moments. We have theoretically demonstrated a single low frequency gas detector that can be used for sensing of gas mixtures with high selectivity, accuracy, and sensitivity. The enhancement of the population difference between corresponding molecular levels and reached the theoretical maximum of absorption have been shown.
ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-020-58473-x