Advanced Wave Sensors (AWSensors) is a high-tech company that designs, develops, produces, and markets high precision sensing instrumentation for basic research, pre-clinical research, and industrial applications. Its scientific technology for direct and real-time molecular analysis is used by researchers to measure mass, thickness and viscoelasticity of thin films. The company’s QCMD instruments, sensors, and accessories are of interest in research fields such as new materials (wear, corrosion, swelling,…) and life sciences (DNA study, infectious diseases, clinical diagnosis…). Our company also provides scientific advice and customized adaptations of all our products at competitive prices.

At the core of our sensing technology, commonly referred to as quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) with dissipation measurement (QCMD), is a humble piezoelectric quartz resonator. Its properties (resonance frequency and quality factor) depend on the environment: mass of a thin layer or shape of particles adsorbed at the surface of the resonator, viscosity of the surrounding liquid,  etc. More information can be found here and here.

AWSensors is working at the frontiers of QCMD-based sensing by designing high-frequency QCMD sensors and sensor arrays, necessary control electronics and algorithms, fluidics for handling minute sample volumes, and interfacial chemistry for specific analyte detection.