Influence of the liquid injection hole to ripple frequency of the QCM sensor

Abstract

The liquid injection is one of the crucial roles in the used of QCM sensors in a liquid application. Liquid sample injection should be controlled. As the liquid injected onto the QCM sensor surface using peristaltic pump, a short pressure pulse exists. The short pulse affect the stability of the resonance frequency of the QCM sensor. The pulsation flow of the peristaltic pump leads to a ripple resonance frequency of the QCM sensor. Resonance frequency measurement of the QCM sensor in the reaction cell injected using the peristaltic pump has been measured. Different injection holes size was made to observe the effect to the sensor stability. The result showed that frequency of the QCM sensor has a ripple frequency as the liquid injected using the peristaltic pump. It was observed that bigger injection hole at the exit flow resulted in a smaller ripple frequency. Further investigation is required to get the smallest ripple p frequency during the liquid injection using the peristaltic pump.