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Trace explosive detection using photothermal deflection spectroscopy

J. Appl. Phys. 103, 094906 (2008); doi:10.1063/1.2908181

Published 2 May 2008

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Adam R. Krause,1 Charles Van Neste,1 Larry Senesac,1 Thomas Thundat,1 and Eric Finot2
1Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA and University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
2Institut CARNOT de Bourgogne, Nanosciences-Optique Submicronique, BP 47870, F-21078 Dijon, France
Satisfying the conditions of high sensitivity and high selectivity using portable sensors that are also reversible is a challenge. Miniature sensors such as microcantilevers offer high sensitivity but suffer from poor selectivity due to the lack of sufficiently selective receptors. Although many of the mass deployable spectroscopic techniques provide high selectivity, they do not have high sensitivity. Here, we show that this challenge can be overcome by combining photothermal spectroscopy on a bimaterial microcantilever with the mass induced change in the cantilever's resonance frequency. Detection using adsorption-induced resonant frequency shift together with photothermal deflection spectroscopy shows extremely high selectivity with a subnanogram limit of detection for vapor phase adsorbed explosives, such as pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), cyclotrimethylene trinitramine (RDX), and trinitrotoluene (TNT). ©2008 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 12 December 2007; accepted 19 February 2008; published 2 May 2008
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  • 07.07.Df
    Sensors (chemical, optical, electrical, movement, gas, etc.); remote sensing
  • 07.10.Cm
    Micromechanical devices and systems
  • 85.85.+j
    Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) and devices
  • YEAR: 2008

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