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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Radio Frequency Detection and Characterization of Water-Ethanol Solution through Spiral-Coupled Passive Micro-Resonator Sensor.

Gyan Raj Koirala, Rajendra Dhakal, Eun-Seong Kim, Zhao Yao, Nam-Young Kim

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Gyan Raj KoiralaRFIC Lab, Department of Electronic Engineering, Kwangwoon University, 01897 Seoul, Korea. thegrkoirala@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-2445-5777
Rajendra DhakalRFIC Lab, Department of Electronic Engineering, Kwangwoon University, 01897 Seoul, Korea. aperioraj@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-3550-5581
Eun-Seong KimRFIC Lab, Department of Electronic Engineering, Kwangwoon University, 01897 Seoul, Korea. 3037eskim@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-2440-9228
Zhao YaoRFIC Lab, Department of Electronic Engineering, Kwangwoon University, 01897 Seoul, Korea. yao9074@hotmail.com.
Nam-Young KimRFIC Lab, Department of Electronic Engineering, Kwangwoon University, 01897 Seoul, Korea. nykim@kw.ac.kr.

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Abstract

We present a microfabricated spiral-coupled passive resonator sensor realized through integrated passive device (IPD) technology for the sensitive detection and characterization of water-ethanol solutions. In order to validate the performance of the proposed device, we explicitly measured and analyzed the radio frequency (RF) characteristics of various water-ethanol solution compositions. The measured results showed a drift in the resonance frequency from 1.16 GHz for deionized (DI) water to 1.68 GHz for the solution containing 50% ethanol, whereas the rejection level given by the reflection coefficient decreased from -29.74 dB to -14.81 dB. The obtained limit of detection was 3.82% volume composition of ethanol in solution. The derived loaded capacitance was 21.76 pF for DI water, which gradually decreased to 8.70 pF for the 50% ethanol solution, and the corresponding relative permittivity of the solution decreased from 80.14 to 47.79. The dissipation factor increased with the concentration of ethanol in the solution. We demonstrated the reproducibility of the proposed sensor through iterative measures of the samples and the study of surface morphology. Successive measurement of different samples had no overlapping and had very minimum bias between RF characteristics for each measured sample. The surface profile for bare sensors was retained after the sample test, resulting a root mean square (RMS) value of 11.416 nm as compared to 10.902 nm for the bare test. The proposed sensor was shown to be a viable alternative to existing sensors for highly sensitive water-ethanol concentration detection.

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micro-resonator sensorpermittivityradio frequencyreproduciblewater-ethanol

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PMCPMC5948501

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