Improving the accuracy and operating range of quartz microbalance sensors by a purposely designed oscillator circuit

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1119-1122

  Ferrari, V ^a   Marioli, D ^a   Taroni, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic wave transducer; Piezoelectric resonator oscillator; Quartz microbalance

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; CAPACITANCE; CIRCUIT RESONANCE; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; QUARTZ;

ACOUSTIC LOADING; PIEZOELECTRIC RESONATOR OSCILLATOR; QUARTZ MICROBALANCE SENSORS; THICKNESS SHEAR MODE; VISCOELASTIC COATING FILMS;

SENSORS;

EID: 0035483110     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.963169     Document Type: Article

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