Operation of the Quartz Crystal Microbalance in Liquids: Derivation of the Elastic Compliance of a Film from the Ratio of Bandwidth Shift and Frequency Shift

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For a thin viscoelastic film deposited on a quartz crystal microbalance in a liquid environment, the change in dissipation induced by the presence of a film is proportional to the film's elastic compliance, Jf'. This surprising result is a consequence of the fact that the film is "clamped" by a viscous fluid.