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Acoustic Transducer and Its Applications in Biosensors

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An acoustic transducer is a device that converts acoustic energy and electrical energy into each other. When acoustic waves propagate through a medium, its physical properties can be affected by many factors. According to these phenomenon, a wide variety of acoustic wave sensors can be manufactured by means of the acoustic transducer, including quartz crystal microbalance, film bulk acoustic resonator, Rayleigh wave sensor, shear-horizontal surface acoustic wave sensor, surface transverse wave sensor, Love wave sensor, shear-horizontal acoustic plate mode sensor, and flexural plate wave sensor. Nowadays, acoustic wave devices have been widely used for the detection of mass, viscosity, conductivity, and density. They have advantages of high precision, high sensitivity, easy integration, good reliability, small size, light weight, and low power consumption.

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    Junyu Zhang, Qian Wu, Xi Zhang, Hao Wan & Ping Wang

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Zhang, J., Wu, Q., Zhang, X., Wan, H., Wang, P. (2022). Acoustic Transducer and Its Applications in Biosensors. In: Thouand, G. (eds) Handbook of Cell Biosensors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23217-7_65

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