Design and properties of quartz-based Love wave acoustic sensors incorporating silicon dioxide and PMMA guiding layers

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 716-720

  Harding, Geoffrey L ^a   Du, Jia ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; PLASTIC FILMS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; QUARTZ; SILICA; SPUTTER DEPOSITION; WAVEGUIDES;

LOVE WAVE ACOUSTIC SENSORS;

CHEMICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0031336065     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/6/6/008     Document Type: Article

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