Gas sensitivity comparison of polymer coated SAW and STW resonators operating at the same acoustic wave length

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 150-158

  Avramov, Ivan D ^a   Rapp, Michael ^b   Kurosawa, Shigeru ^c   Krawczak, Piotr ^b   Radeva, Ekaterina Ivanova ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Films; Gas detectors; Noise; Polymers; Surface acoustic wave resonators

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; ALCOHOLS; CHEMICAL SENSORS; POLYMERS; QUARTZ; VISCOELASTICITY;

CHEMOSENSITIVE FILMS; HEXAMETHYLDISILOXANE (HMDSO); SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS; SURFACE TRANSVERSE WAVE (STW);

RESONATORS;

EID: 0345150474     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2002.800287     Document Type: Article

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