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Fast and Accurate Exhaled Breath Ammonia Measurement
Published on: June 11, 2014
Continuous ammonia monitor using a Stark microwave cavity resonator
1Sagami Chemical Research Center, Nishi-Ohnuma, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa 229, Japan.
Abstract:
An ammonia monitor has been made by using a rectangular Stark microwave cavity tightly coupled through an iris to a Gunn oscillator. The Stark electrode installed inside the cavity is provided with a 100 kHz sinusoidal modulation voltage and a dc sweep voltage. The oscillation of the Gunn diode is tuned with the coupled Stark cavity to a frequency near a J,K=3,3 transition (23870.1 MHz) of ammonia. By fixing the Stark dc bias to a voltage which gives a peak intensity of the derivative output of the electric-resonance signal, ammonia is continuously monitored. An extremely good long-term stability is obtained. The noise level corresponds to 0.08 ppm of ammonia.
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