Vibration modes of mass-loaded planoconvex quartz crystal resonators

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 700-706

  Benes, Ewald ^a   Schmid, Michael ^a   Kravchenko, Victor ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE;

EID: 0025739173     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.401940     Document Type: Article

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