Günter Sauerbrey obtained his
Ph.D from
Technische Universität Berlin. He was responsible of the Laboratory of Medical Techniques and Dosimetry of the
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in
Berlin for 24 years (from 1974 to 1998).
Research contributions Günter Sauerbrey invented the
quartz crystal microbalance. He developed the research related to QCM in his doctoral thesis at
Technische Universität Berlin and published it in two seminal papers in 1957 and 1959. He was the first to use a harmonic acceleration field to measure mass, although he was not aware of this at the time of publication. Together with the quartz crystal microbalance, he developed the
Sauerbrey equation to explain the working principle of the device. Later, other authors developed derivative equations for different cases. == See also ==