Title
A Frequency Synthesizer Based Microwave Permittivity Sensor Using CMRC Structure.
Abstract
In this paper, a high-sensitive microwave dielectric sensor targeted for material permittivity characterization is proposed. A reflective voltage controlled oscillator is devised by virtue of the compact microstrip resonant cell (CMRC) and embedded into a fractional-N phase-locked loop frequency synthesizer. The CMRC structure, covered with material under test, changes its resonating characteristics and, hence, the initial oscillating frequency. Due to the presence of the frequency synthesizer, this frequency shift is finally translated into the controlling voltage variation. In this paper, the material permittivity is extracted by measuring the voltage deviation. Several different samples with known permittivity values are tested to verify the effectiveness of the design sensing platform.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2808362
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Compact microstrip resonant cell,frequency synthesizer,microwave sensor,permittivity characterization,reflective oscillator
Microwave,Permittivity,Oscillation,Dielectric,Computer science,Voltage,Voltage-controlled oscillator,Frequency synthesizer,Acoustics,Microstrip,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6
2169-3536
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shichang Chen101.69
Mengchu Guo200.68
Kuiwen Xu327.49
Peng Zhao401.69
Linxi Dong502.70
Gaofeng Wang62410.09