Noise Measurement Setup for Quartz Crystal Microbalance
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2012-04
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Společnost pro radioelektronické inženýrství
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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 fluctuation of QCM. The paper describes our measurement setup, in which a quartz crystal oscillator with coated active layers and a reference quartz oscillator are driven by two oscillator circuits. Each one regulates a frequency of a crystal at the minimum impedance which corresponds to the series resonance. A data-acquisition card triggers on the rise-edges of the output signal and stores these corresponding times on which the instantaneous frequency is estimated by own-written software. In comparison to other measurement setups, our approach can acquire immediate change of QCM frequency, thus, chemical processes can be even described on the basis of high-order statistics. The experiments were provided on quartz crystals with the sorption layer of polypyrrole, which is suitable for the construction of QCM humidity sensors.
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Radioengineering. 2012, vol. 21, č. 1, s. 207-212. ISSN 1210-2512
http://www.radioeng.cz/fulltexts/2012/12_01_0207_0212.pdf
http://www.radioeng.cz/fulltexts/2012/12_01_0207_0212.pdf
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en