Title: Smart Sensors and MEMS

Author: Sergey Y. Yurish (Editor), Maria Teresa S.R. Gomes (Editor)

Publisher: Springer Verlag

Hardcover: 480 pages

Pubdate: January, 2005

ISBN: 1402029276

Price: $ 89.95 (paperback), $ 199.00 (hardcover)

Abstract

Bulk acoustic wave devices have been developed for the detection and quantification of a large number of compounds. Most of those works do not include an application to real samples and are poor characterized from an analytical chemistry point of view. An overview of the analytical requirements for a real application is reviewed and usual problems frequently faced by the analyst using thickness shear mode devices are presented, as well as some solutions and illustrative practical examples taken from the literature.

Keywords: bulk acoustic wave devices, thickness shear mode resonators, quartz crystal microbalance, chemical analysis.

Maria Teresa Seabra dos Reis Gomes, NATO ASI Co-director, Professor, Dr., Department of Chemistry University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.

Tel.: +351 234370722,  fax: +351 234370084

E-mail: mtgomes@dq.ua.pt