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- Variable
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Definition (Comments)
- a, b, c
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Coefficients of the 3rd-order polynomial describing the T-f characteristic of AT-cut crystals
- f
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Frequency
- T
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Temperature
- T 0
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Reference temperature of the T-f characteristic
- δf
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Shift in resonance frequency caused by temperature drifts
- Δf(u 0)
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Dependence of the frequency shift on amplitude, u 0
- θ
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Angle of a crystal cut (Angle between the surface normal and the crystallographic y-axis)
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Johannsmann, D. (2015). Considerations for Well-Controlled QCM Experiments. In: The Quartz Crystal Microbalance in Soft Matter Research. Soft and Biological Matter. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07836-6_17
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