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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 8, Issue 14, Pages 3398-3403Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01288
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- ETH Zurich
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
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Continuing efforts to quantify the influence of aerosol light absorption upon global heat budgets rely on high-quality measurements of aerosol optical properties. Of the available methods, photoacoustic spectroscopy stands out as a sensitive method for measurements of aerosol absorption with minimal sample modification. Theoretical treatments of photoacoustic aerosol detection have predicted size-dependent damping of the photoacoustic signal as a result of particle thermal inertia. We provide experimental confirmation of this prediction using a single-particle photoacoustic spectrometer, which allows us to measure photoacoustic signals with high sensitivity and size-specificity. Both the magnitude and phase of the photoacoustic response follow the linearized description of the heat flux. The quantification of this effect provides a basis for future, system-specific case studies.
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