Silicon micro-levers and a multilayer graphene membrane studied via laser photoacoustic detection

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989100%3A27200%2F15%3A86092455" target="_blank" >RIV/61989100:27200/15:86092455 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/61388955:_____/15:00443981

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/jsss-4-103-2015" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/jsss-4-103-2015</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/jsss-4-103-2015" target="_blank" >10.5194/jsss-4-103-2015</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Silicon micro-levers and a multilayer graphene membrane studied via laser photoacoustic detection

Original language description

Laser photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS) is a method that utilizes the sensing of the pressure waves that emerge upon the absorption of radiation by absorbing species. The use of the conventional electret microphone as a pressure sensor has already reached its limit, and a new type of microphone - an optical microphone -has been suggested to increase the sensitivity of this method. The movement of a micro-lever or a membrane is sensed via a reflected beam of light, which falls onto a position-sensing detector. The use of one micro-lever as a pressure sensor in the form of a silicon cantilever has already enhanced the sensitivity of laser PAS. Herein, we test two types of home-made sensing elements - four coupled silicon micro-levers and a multi-layer graphene membrane - which have the potential to enhance this sensitivity further. Graphene sheets possess outstanding electromechanical properties and demonstrate impressive sensitivity as mass detectors. Their mechanical properties make them suitable for use as micro-/nano-levers or membranes, which could function as extremely sensitive pressure sensors. Graphene sheets were prepared from multilayer graphene through the micromechanical cleavage of basal plane highly ordered pyrolytic graphite. Multilayer graphene sheets (thickness similar to 10(2) nm) were then mounted on an additional glass window in a cuvette for PAS. The movements of the sheets induced by acoustic waves were measured using an He-Ne laser beam reflected from the sheets onto a quadrant detector. A discretely tunable CO2 laser was used as the source of radiation energy for the laser PAS experiments. Sensitivity testing of the investigated sensing elements was performed with the aid of concentration standards and a mixing arrangement in a flow regime.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

CF - Physical chemistry and theoretical chemistry

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA14-14696S" target="_blank" >GA14-14696S: Versatile micromechanical sensor and laser photoacoustics for combined gas/liquid diagnostics</a><br>

Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Sensors and Sensor Systems

ISSN

2194-8771

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

4

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

103-109

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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