Discriminative sensing of volatile organic solvents. Comparative analysis using different QCM techniques

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1500-1503

  Holloway, A F ^a   Nabok, A ^a   Thompson, M ^a   Siddiqi, J ^a   Ray, A K ^a   Bliznyuk, V ^b  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissipation; Impedance Analysis; QCM; Sensor array

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; CRYSTALS; QUARTZ; RELIABILITY; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

IMPEDANCE ANALYSIS; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE (QCM); SENSOR ARRAYS;

ORGANIC SOLVENTS;

EID: 27944479704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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