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Shear Mode Resonators
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Over the past eight years, Ktech's engineers and technicians have
developed special expertise in the research, development, and design
of sensors and sensors systems. Recently, Ktech personnel assisted
Sandia National Laboratories and a multinational commercial company
develop sensor systems using thickness shear mode (TSM) acoustic sensor
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TSM sensor technology allows fluid properties such as density, viscosity,
and liquid-to-solid phase changes to be measured with greater accuracy and efficiency.
Very subtle changes in mass deposition and viscoelastic character of deposited mass can
also be determined. The TSM resonator is high sensitivity device, with a sensitivity
greater than 5ng/cm2. The sensor is small and allows in-situ, real-time measurements.
Sample sizes can be less than 1 cc.
Services Ktech Provides
- Sensor system mechanical design
- Sensor system electrical design
- Fabrication of sensor systems
- Characterization of sensor response
- Application of sensor systems to measurement problems in extreme environments
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Specific Applications for TSM technology include
- Fuel oxidation measurement
- Aircraft wing ice detection
- Cleaning bath effectiveness
- Fluid viscosity/density monitoring
- Mass deposition
- Cloud point determination
- Electro deposition monitoring
- Biological sensors
- Dew point measurements
- Fluid pH measurement
- Film property measurement
- Detection of volatile organic compounds in water
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For more information relating specifically to
Shear Mode Resonators, contact Jim Spates.
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