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Quartz Crystal Microbalance 10MHz
  QCM crystal for Biotechnology and Laboratory
 
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Features

 

  1. High reliability microbalance measuring
  2. 51/U package with loose canned
  3. Gold coating for great aging characteristics
  4. High quality Scratch Dig and chip control
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Specification

Description
Specification
Center Frequency
6MHz
Quartz Plate Thickness
0.17mm
Diameter
13.7mm
Quartz axis
AT cut Fund. Thickness mode
Electrode Diameter
5.11mm
Electrode material
~ 1000 A Gold + Cr sub-layer for better attachment
Packing methods
51/U loose canned
Delivery
3 weeks from P/O date
¡á SHiNWOO offers blank orders.
Always welcome for material requirement from sensor manufacturers
  SHiNWOO especially provides Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) Sensor Crystals in commercial and research applications with competitive price. This type of quartz crystals is supplied for system developers to coat with their own sensitizing materials, and for other applications such as contamination monitoring under laboratory vacuum conditions or Electrochemical QCM (EQCM) experiments
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Simple Theory

  The quartz crystal microbalance(QCM) is based on piezoelectric effect. The resonance frequency of quartz crystal was influenced by thickness of AT cut crystals. If additional material is uniformly deposited on the face of the crystal, the additional thickness will decrease the resonant frequency of the acoustic wave. This frequency shift due to mass deposition may be correlated to the absolute mass deposited via the following substituted form of the Sauerbrey equation:

¥ñq ; the density of quartz,
Aq ; area of resonance,
Nq : frequency constant for AT-cut quartz crystals (1.668 X 105 Hz cm),
Fq :the frequency of quartz prior to deposition,
F : the frequency at any point during the deposition process.
(Equation valid until 2% total frequency change from starting frequency)

  It is monitored through the frequency shift when added coating layer. The results are appeared to thicker the crystal, the longer the resonance wavelength. The film density value is input in order to compensate the density difference between the film deposited and the density of quartz which is 2.648 g/cc.
Our crystals are plano-convex, meaning they are thicker at the center than the edges.
Given the wide variety of coating technologies available to the thin film engineer and scientist, it can be difficult to determine the best monitor crystal type for a given process. We will attempt to generally categorize processes and the appropriate crystals.
 
   
   
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