Novel Readout Electronics for Thickness Shear-Mode Liquid Sensors Compensating for Spurious Conductivity and Capacitances

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 464-469

  Jakoby, Bernhard ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Active compensation; capacitance and conductance compensation; electronic readout circuit; microacoustic sensors; thickness shear mode (TSM); viscosity sensors

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008023515     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2007.891931     Document Type: Article

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