Typical Applications of Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation Monitoring (QCMD) in Clinical Diagnostics

Quartz crystal is a very thin oscillator that can provide stable frequency under certain conditions. In electronics, quartz crystals are widely used to provide steady and constant frequencies. However, crystal resonance properties are affected by environmental properties such as temperature or quartz plate mass. If, in electronics, this might be undesired effects, it becomes a valuable tool for biosensor applications in other areas such as nanotechnology, biology, and biomedicine. The changes in the crystal sensor frequency due to mass changes can be used to detect the properties of the environment. The method is the so-called Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation measurements or simply QCMD.










