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The QTFs were placed inside a humidity chamber and the parameters were studied with a setup to record the resonance frequency and quality factor by resonance tracking. The variations of these parameters that led to a 1% theoretical error on the Quartz Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy (QEPAS) signal were defined. At a controlled level of humidity, the commercial and custom QTFs present similar results. Therefore, commercial QTFs appear to be a very good candidates for QEPAS as they are also affordable and small. When the humidity increases from 30 to 90 %RH, the variations in the custom QTFs\u2019 parameters remain suitable, while commercial QTFs show unpredictable behavior.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23063135","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,15]],"date-time":"2023-03-15T05:22:59Z","timestamp":1678857779000},"page":"3135","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Commercial and Custom Quartz Tuning Forks for Quartz Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy: Stability under Humidity Variation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Diba","family":"Ayache","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"IES, CNRS, University Montpellier, 34095 Montpellier, France"}]},{"given":"Roman","family":"Rousseau","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"IES, CNRS, University Montpellier, 34095 Montpellier, France"}]},{"given":"Elena","family":"Kniazeva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"IES, CNRS, University Montpellier, 34095 Montpellier, France"},{"name":"PolySense Laboratory, Universit\u00e0 Degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro e Politecnico di Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy"}]},{"given":"Julien","family":"Charensol","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"IES, CNRS, University Montpellier, 34095 Montpellier, France"}]},{"given":"Tarek","family":"Seoudi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"IES, CNRS, University Montpellier, 34095 Montpellier, France"}]},{"given":"Michael","family":"Bahriz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"IES, CNRS, University Montpellier, 34095 Montpellier, France"}]},{"given":"Fares","family":"Gouzi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"PhyMedExp, INSERM, CNRS, CHRU, University of Montpellier, 34000 Montpellier, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4867-8166","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vincenzo","family":"Spagnolo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"PolySense Laboratory, Universit\u00e0 Degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro e Politecnico di Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5709-3151","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Aurore","family":"Vicet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"IES, CNRS, University Montpellier, 34095 Montpellier, France"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1902","DOI":"10.1364\/OL.27.001902","article-title":"Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy","volume":"27","author":"Kosterev","year":"2002","journal-title":"Opt. 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