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This Demonstration plots various representations of the admittance of the Butterworth–Van Dyke electrical circuit, commonly utilized to model the electro-acoustic behavior of a quartz resonator used in quartz crystal microbalance (QCM). The top branch of the electrical circuit is called the acoustic branch while the bottom branch is called the electrical branch.

The admittance can be written:

,

where is the frequency and .

The reduced admittance is then:

with , the reduced frequency,

,

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The expressions of the real and the imaginary parts of the admittance are:

and

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The resonance of the quartz crystal is reached when the reduced frequency

,

,

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The green dots represent the reduced resonance frequency.

References

[1] A. Arnau, T. Sogorb and Y. Jiménez, "A Continuous Motional Series Resonant Frequency Monitoring Circuit and a New Method of Determining Butterworth-Van Dyke Parameters of a Quartz Crystal Microbalance in Liquid Media," Review of Scientific Instruments, 71(6), 2000, pp. 2563–2571. doi:10.1063/1.1150649.

[2] S. Butterworth, "On Electrically-maintained Vibrations," Proceedings of the Physical Society of London, 27(1), 1914 pp. 410–424. doi:10.1088/1478-7814/27/1/330.

[3] K. S. Van Dyke, Phys. Rev., 25, 1925 p. 895.

[4] K. S. Van Dyke, in Proceedings of the 1928 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, New York: IEEE, 1928 p. 742.