A new approach to the development of quartz crystal sensors distinguishing between mass loading and liquid damping

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1234-1238

  Zhang, Chao ^a   Feng, Fengpin ^a   Sui, Senfang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chemical sensor; Liquid damping; Mass loading; Piezoelectric resonator; Quartz crystal microbalance

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL RESONATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUARTZ;

LIQUID DAMPING; MASS LOADING; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE;

CHEMICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0032178488     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.746589     Document Type: Article

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