Slab optical waveguide (SOWG) spectroscopy was used to observe the adsorption behavior of three important heme proteins, namely cytochrome c, myoglobin and hemoglobin, in a quartz surface. Using prism-coupled polychromatic visible light propagated into a quartz waveguide by internal total reflection, the real-time monitoring of evanescent wave absorption revealed a strong dependence of the prot...

The detection of anti-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies by means of synthetic HIV peptide immobilized on a piezoelectric quartz sensor is demonstrated. The measurement set-up consists of an oscillator circuit, a suitably modified AT-cut thickness-shear-mode quartz crystal with gold electrodes, which is housed in a special reaction vessel, and a computer-controlled frequency counter ...

Cathodoluminescence (CL) offers the ability to measure trace ionic species with relatively short acquisition times enabling large areas to be mapped with detection limits orders of magnitude below elemental detections levels acquired using x-rays under the same conditions. We have applied this technique to the investigation of quartz grains and overgrowths from shale and sandstone samples acros...

A low-destructive friction-induced nanofabrication method is proposed to produce three-dimensional nanostructures on a quartz surface. Without any template, nanofabrication can be achieved by low-destructive scanning on a target area and post-etching in a KOH solution. Various nanostructures, such as slopes, hierarchical stages and chessboard-like patterns, can be fabricated on the quartz surfa...

Fine particle quartz is considered as a lung carcinogen and therefore its monitoring in the workplace is currently required by government legislation across the world. In order to enforce the health and safety standards, techniques that can accurately determine the amounts airborne quartz are necessary. Currently, two techniques dominate quartz analysis--the infrared (IR) spectrophotometric ana...

Sillimanite is a very important raw material for the manufacture of refractory bricks used in iron and steel, cement and glass industries. In some coastal stretches of south India, the beach sand is contaminated with shell. After recovering heavy minerals like ilmenite, rutile, zircon and garnet by various physical separation techniques, the final sand containing sillimanite, quartz and shell i...

Received: 13 Mar. 2012; Revised 25 Jul. 2012; Accepted 04 Aug. 2012 Received: April 8, 2012; Revised May 4, 2012; Accepted June 6, 2012 Abstract: Aiming at the problem of atmospheric humidity measurement, this paper proposes a method to measure dew point based on sensitive circuit for the first time. We use the quartz crystal in the Colpitts circuit as the humidity sensitive element. Since the ...

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A new method for the automated measurement of the hysteresis of the temperature-compensated inductance-to-frequency converter with a single quartz crystal is proposed. The new idea behind this method is a converter with two programmable analog switches enabling the automated measurement of the converter hysteresis, as well as the temperature compensation of the quartz crystal and any other circ...