Review of thickness-shear mode quartz resonator sensors for temperature and pressure

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 79-87

  Eernisse, Errol P ^a,b   Wiggins, Robert B ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Quartzdyne Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Piezoelectric resonators; Pressure measurement; Quartz; Quartz resonator transducers; Resonators; Temperature measurement; Transducers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002205304     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2001.923590     Document Type: Article

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