{"title":"A viscometer based on vibration of droplets on a piezoresistive cantilever array","authors":"N. Thanh-Vinh, Kiyoshi Matsumoto, I. Shimoyama","doi":"10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7050915","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports a method to measure viscosity based on the resonant vibration of droplets on a piezoresistive cantilever array. We demonstrate that viscosity of small droplets (3μL) can be estimated from the attenuation rate of the cantilever output during free-decay of the droplet vibration. The estimation for liquid sample with different viscosity using water-glycerol solutions were carried out.","PeriodicalId":337894,"journal":{"name":"2015 28th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"10","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2015 28th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7050915","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 10
Abstract
This paper reports a method to measure viscosity based on the resonant vibration of droplets on a piezoresistive cantilever array. We demonstrate that viscosity of small droplets (3μL) can be estimated from the attenuation rate of the cantilever output during free-decay of the droplet vibration. The estimation for liquid sample with different viscosity using water-glycerol solutions were carried out.