Based on the piezoelectric effect of piezoelectric quartz crystal, a two-dimensional force sensor with good dynamic characteristics is designed, whose sensitive component is single-cut piezoelectric quartz wafers, and it realizes the measurement of force by measuring the charge which is generated by piezoelectric quartz crystal. This paper analyzes measurement principle of the sensor based on t...

Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) is a high sensitive chemical sensor which has found widespread spectrum of applications. There are several mechanisms that are related to fluctuation phenomena. Since the aim of our research is oriented to study the sensitivity and influence of different kind of noises on sensor resolution, we modified an existing method to measure the small frequency fluctuati...

The design of a combined scanning electrochemical microscope-quartz crystal microbalance (SECM-QCM) with separate potential control of the tip and substrate is described. Both lateral and vertical tip movements near the substrate affect the QCM resonant frequency because of perturbations of the longitudinal and shear waves of the quartz crystal (QC) acoustic wave sensor. The SECM-QCM was used t...

Two recent intratracheal instillation toxicology studies in rats clearly show that a naturally occurring quartz, with occluded crystal surfaces (quartz isolate), produced significantly less inflammatory response than a crushed reference quartz (DQ12). Respirable-size quartz isolate was isolated from bentonite parent rock, without crushing or the use of chemicals, to ensure that the surface prop...

Expressions corresponding to the transmission of a uniaxial optically active crystal platelet are provided for an optical axis parallel and perpendicular to the plane of interface. The optical activity is taken into account by a consistent multipolar expansion of the crystal medium response due to the path of an electromagnetic wave. Numerical examples of the effect of the optical activity are ...

Piezoelectric materials such as quartz can be used to detect mass change due to their piezoelectric properties. Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) is an extremely sensitive mass sen frequency biosensor mass mea for QCM DNA biosensor was developed. The potential for QCM to be employed as immunosensor sor, capable of measuring sub-nanogram levels by detecting change in the of a quartz crystal reso...

An artificial olfactory system (or “electronic nose”) has been developed to investigate the interactions between polymer-modified sensors with odorant vapors from the headspace of primary alcohol samples. Complementary pairs of polymer-coated quartz crystal microbalance sensors and polymer/carbon black-coated microresistance sensors have been used to produce a characteristic value for the odora...

This paper presents an efficient scheme to design the most used biosensor Quartz crystal nanobalance (QCN). The main characteristic of QCN is very mass sensitivity. It means a little variation of deposited mass on the surface of QCN and it will cause the change of thickness-shear-mode resonant frequency. An electro-mechanical coupled-field 3D finite element method is applied to analyze the reso...