title: A novel Love-plate acoustic sensor utilizing polymer overlayers.
abstract: A Love-plate sensor, consisting of a surface skimming bulk wave (SSBW) device coated with a polymer layer, was found to increase the acoustic signal through coupling of the SSBW wave to a Love wave. Insertion loss, phase and frequency measurements were used to assess the optimum thickness of the polymer layer and the sensitivity of the device to mass-loading and viscous coupling.
authors.affiliation: Inst. of Biotechnol., Cambridge Univ.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gizeli
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Stevenson
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Goddard
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Lowe