From quartz crystal microbalance to fundamental principles of mass measurements

Analytical Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 753-767

  Mecea, Vasile Mihai ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b QCM Lab   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Beam balance; Equivalence principle; General relativity; Megagravity field; QCM

Indexed keywords

GOLD; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILVER;

ACCELERATION; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; DENSITY; ELECTRODE; INSTRUMENT; LIQUID; MASS; MICROBALANCE; MICROGRAVITY; NANOPARTICLE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHORT SURVEY; VACUUM; VIBRATION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 16344394032     PISSN: 00032719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/AL-200056171     Document Type: Short Survey

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