Design Guidelines for Sensors Based on Spiral Resonators

Sensors

卷:22

Filippo Costa¹  Mahmoud Elgeziry¹  Simone Genovesi¹ 

[1] Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy;

关键词: spiral resonators;    microwave sensors;    metamaterials;    displacement sensors;    distance sensors;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s22052071

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Wireless microwave sensors provide a practical alternative where traditional contact-based measurement techniques are not possible to implement or suffer from performance deterioration. Resonating elements are commonly used in these sensors as the sensing concept relies on the resonance properties of the employed structure. This work presents some simple guidelines for designing displacement sensors based on spiral resonator (SR) tags. The working principle of this sensor is based on the variation of the coupling strength between the SR tag and a probing microstrip loop with the distance between them. The performance of the sensor depends on the main design parameters, such as tag dimensions, filling factor, number of turns, and the size of probing loop. The guidelines provided herein can be used for the initial phase of the design process by helping to select a preliminary set of parameters according to the desired application requirements. The provided conclusions are supported using electromagnetic simulations and analytical expressions. Finally, a corrected equivalent circuit model that takes into account the phenomenon of the resonant frequency shift at small distances is provided. The findings are compared against experimental measurements to verify their validity.

【 授权许可】

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