Investigation of the frequency shift of a SAD circuit loop and the internal micro-cantilever in a gas sensor

Sensors

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 7044-7056

  Guan, Liu ^a   Zhao, Jiahao ^a   Yu, Shijie ^a   Li, Peng ^a   You, Zheng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Frequency shift; Gas sensor; Micro cantilever; Oscillator loop

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SIGNAL; FREQUENCY SHIFT; MECHANICAL RESONANCE FREQUENCY; MICRO-CANTILEVERS; OSCILLATOR CIRCUITS; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; RESONATING FREQUENCY; WORKING FREQUENCY;

CHEMICAL SENSORS; EXPERIMENTS; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; GAS DETECTORS; NANOCANTILEVERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SENSORS;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; GAS;

ELECTRONICS; GASES;

EID: 77957139173     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s100707044     Document Type: Article

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