Surface waves in coated anisotropic medium loaded with viscous liquid

The development of micro-acoustic wave sensor in biosensing created the nee d for further investigations of the surface wave propagation in a viscous l iquid loaded layered medium. In this paper, we employed the sextic formalis m of surface waves to study the viscous effect on the dispersion and attenu ation characteristics of surface waves in a viscous liquid loaded layered m edium. The dispersion relation for the viscous liquid loaded single-layered anisotropic half-space is given. Numerical examples of the Rayleigh wave a nd Love wave dispersion for the cases of a Cu/Fe layered half-space (isotro pic) and of a SiO2/Si layered half-space (anisotropic) loaded with viscous liquid are calculated and discussed.