Photoacoustic instruments for practical applications: Present, potentials, and future challenges

Applied Spectroscopy Reviews

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-37

  Bozóki, Zoltán ^a   Pogány, Andrea ^b   Szabó, Gábor ^b  

^a RESEARCH GROUP ON LASER PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

environmental monitoring; industrial applications; Photoacoustic spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUTURE CHALLENGES; GAS CONCENTRATION; MEASUREMENT METHODS; PHOTOACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MONITORING; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 78651107348     PISSN: 05704928     EISSN: 1520569X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/05704928.2010.520178     Document Type: Article

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