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Article: PNNL Chem Agent Sensor Provides Results In 45 Seconds.
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- Defense Daily
- Article date:
- March 23, 2007
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By Geoff Fein
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a chemical agent sensor that needs only a thimble-sized sample to detect and recognize a gas in 45 seconds, according to a PNNL research scientist.
The technique, called Quartz Laser Photo-Acoustic Sensing (QPAS), recently wrapped up the second phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) effort to find a sensor that could meet the military's Joint Chemical Agent Detector (JCAD) requirements, Michael Wojcik told Defense Daily in a recent interview.
JCAD is a Pentagon effort to develop and build a lightweight chemical agent detector that ...