ANYL 188 |
| Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy (CRDS) is a trace-gas detection technology that has come of age. Over the last twenty years, its journey has taken CRDS from an indispensable laboratory tool to a production-ready process control instrument. Driven by the inability of incumbent technology to meet ever-increasing performance requirements, commercially available CRDS instruments are found in industries such as petro-chemical, diesel emissions, oil and gas exploration, semi-conductor wafer fabrication, environmental, and human health. Present-day CRDS instruments can measure ppb level concentrations in complex gas matrices and do not require frequent calibration and maintain high linearity, precision, and accuracy over changing environmental conditions. In this presentation, we will discuss how CRDS instruments addresses the demands of the process control community for speed, selectivity, and sensitivity. Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-FG02-03ER83751. |
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Has Cavity-Enhanced Detection Come of Age?
8:30 AM-11:30 AM, Monday, 11 September 2006 Moscone Center -- Room 130, Oral
Division of Analytical Chemistry |