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Quartz crystal microbalance: A new design eliminates sensitivity outside the electrodes, often wrongly attributed to the electric fringing field

Cumpson, 1997

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11312559153226894587
Author
Cumpson P
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Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films

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Sensitivity outside the electrodes of a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) is typically 5%– 10% of the total sensitivity for the popular planar AT-cut type, and can be a problem in many types of adsorption measurement. This off-electrode sensitivity has sometimes been …
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    • G01N29/02Analysing fluids
    • G01N29/022Fluid sensors based on micro-sensors, e.g. quartz crystal-microbalance [QCM], surface acoustic wave [SAW] devices, tuning forks, cantilevers, flexural plate wave [FPW] devices
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