“…Piezoelectric transduction enables label-free detection of biorecognition events and has been used in microgravimetric devices, generally known as quartz-crystal microbalance (QCM), for different applications (Yang et al, 1998;Etchenique and Brudny, 2000;Liu et al, 2004;Su and Li, 2005;Wu et al, 2005;Modin et al, 2006;Encarnação et al, 2007a;Ferreira et al, 2007;Mitomo et al, 2007). These sensors are driven to mechanically resonate at a particular frequency ( f 0 ) (Kö blinger et al, 1995;Laricchia-Robbio and Revoltella, 2004), that is dependent on the deposition of mass according to the Sauerbrey equation (Sauerbrey, 1959) (Equation (1)).…”