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Günter Sauerbrey

Günter Sauerbrey

German physicist (1933–2003)

Günter Hans Sauerbrey (January 1, 1933 – May 15, 2003) was a German physicist who invented the quartz crystal microbalance (QCM).[3][4]

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Biography

Günter Sauerbrey obtained his Ph.D from the Technical University of Berlin. He was responsible of the Laboratory of Medical Techniques and Dosimetry of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Berlin for 24 years (from 1974 to 1998).[2]

Research contributions

Günter Sauerbrey invented the quartz crystal microbalance. He developed the research related to QCM in his doctoral thesis at the Technical University of Berlin and published it in two seminals papers in 1957[3] and 1959.[4] He was the first to use a harmonic acceleration field to measure mass, although he was not aware about this in the moment of publication.[5]

Together with the quartz crystal microbalance, he developed the Sauerbrey equation to explain the working principle of the device. Later, other authors developed derivative equations for different cases.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Robens, Erich; Mecea, Vasile (2006-09-20) [2006-09-07]. "In memoriam". Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. 86 (1). Kluwer Academic Publishers: 7–8. doi:10.1007/s10973-006-3046-2. ISSN 1572-8943. S2CID 195329965.
  2. [2]
    Kochsiek, Manfred; Buck, Wolfgang; Thomas, R. (2003-05-25). "Sauerbrey, Günter Hans 1933-2003" (in German). Tagesspiegel.
  3. [3]
    Sauerbrey, Günter Hans (April 1957) [January 1957]. "Wägung dünner Schichten mit Schwingquarzen". Angewandte Chemie International Edition (in German). 69 (23). Wiley: 761. doi:10.1002/ange.19570692309.. Also: Sauerbrey, Günter Hans (1957). "Wägung dünner Schichten mit Schwingquarzen". Physikalische Verhandlungen (in German) (8): 193.
  4. [4]
    Sauerbrey, Günter Hans (April 1959) [1959-02-21]. "Verwendung von Schwingquarzen zur Wägung dünner Schichten und zur Mikrowägung" (PDF). Zeitschrift für Physik (in German). 155 (2). Springer-Verlag: 206–222. Bibcode:1959ZPhy..155..206S. doi:10.1007/BF01337937. ISSN 0044-3328. S2CID 122855173. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-02-26. Retrieved 2019-02-26. (NB. This was partially presented at Physikertagung in Heidelberg in October 1957.)
  5. [5]
    Mecea, Vasile (2006-04-19) [2006-04-19]. "Is quartz crystal microbalance really a mass sensor?". Sensors and Actuators A: Physical. 128 (2). Elsevier: 270–277. doi:10.1016/j.sna.2006.01.023.

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