Compensating on-chip transmission line losses for a high-sensitivity microwave sensor

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 7-11

  Song, Chunrong ^a   Harriss, James E ^a   Wang, Pingshan ^a  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dielectric property; Microwave interference; Sensor; Transmission line

Indexed keywords

HIGH-SENSITIVITY; MATERIAL UNDER TESTS; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; MICROWAVE FIELD; MICROWAVE SENSORS; ON CHIPS; ON-CHIP SENSORS; PARASITIC SIGNALS; RADIO FREQUENCY DEVICES; SENSOR SENSITIVITY; TESTING PROCESS; TRANSMISSION LINE; TRANSMISSION LINE LOSS;

BANDPASS FILTERS; CERAMIC CAPACITORS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC LINES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MICROWAVES; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

SENSORS;

EID: 68849086376     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Song C., and Wang P. A radio frequency device for measurement of minute dielectric property changes in microfluidic channels. Appl. Phys. Lett. 94 (2009) 023901
2. Taylor K.M., and Weide D.W.v.d. Ultra-sensitive detection of protein thermal unfolding and refolding using near-zone microwaves. IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. 53 (2005) 1576-1586
3. Facer G.R., Notterman D.A., and Sohn L.L. Dielectric spectroscopy for bioanalysis: from 40 HZ to 26.5 GHz in a microfabricated wave guide. Appl. Phys. Lett. 78 (2001) 996-998
4. Hefti J., Pan A., and Kumar A. Sensitive detection method of dielectric dispersion in aqueous-based, surface-bound macromolecular structures using microwave spectroscopy. Appl. Phys. Lett. 75 (1999) 1802-1805
5. Chen Q., Roitman D., and Knoesen A. Transit time coplanar probe for biomolecular interactions at an aqueous-solid interface. Sensors Actuators A, Phys. 133 (2007) 480-485
6. Morgan H., Sun T., Holmes D., Gawad S., and Green N.G. Single cell dielectric spectroscopy. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 40 (2007) 61-70
7. Olapinski M., Manus S., George M., Bruggemann A., Fertig N., and Simmel F.C. Detection of lipid bilayer and peptide pore formation at gigahertz frequencies. Appl. Phys. Lett. 88 (2006) 013902
8. Werner M. Novel microwave sensors for detection of subsurface moisture and acid. Subsurface Sensing Technol. Appl. 1 (2000) 441-451
9. Okamura S., Zhang Y., and Tsukamoto N. A new microstripline-type moisture sensor for heavily wet tea leaves. Meas. Sci. Technol. 18 (2007) 1022-1028
10. Mateu J., Orloff N., Rinehart M., and Booth J.C. Broadband permittivity of liquids extracted from transmission line measurements of microfluidic channels IEEE/MTT-S International at Microwave Symposium. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, June (2007) 523-526
11. Shah J.J., Sundaresan S.G., Geist J., Reyes D.R., Booth J.C., Rao M.V., and Gaitan M. Microwave dielectric heating of fluids in an integrated microfluidic device. J. Micromech. Microeng. 17 (2007) 2224-2230
12. Akalin T., Arscott S., Bocquet B., Bourzgui N.E., Mille V., Senez V., Treizebre A., Fujii T., Lennon E., Sakai Y., and Yamamoto T. Microfluidic devices for ultra wide band electromagnetic spectroscopy of single cell. International Conf. on Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology. Bankoku-Shinryokan, Okinawa, Japan, May (2006) 252-255
13. Debuisson D., Treizebŕe A., Houssin T.e., Leclerc E., Bart'es-Biesel D., Legrand D., Mazurier J., Arscott S., Bocquet B., and Senez V. Nanoscale devices for online dielectric spectroscopy of biological cells. Physiol. Meas. 29 (2008) S213-S225
14. Pozar D.M. Microwave Engineering. 3rd ed. (2005), John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey p. 145
15. Iskander M.F., and Lind T.S. Electromagnetic coupling of coplanar waveguides and microstriplines to highly lossy dielectric media. IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. 37 (1989) 1910-1917
16. Ionescu-Zanetti C., Nevill J.T., Di Carlo D., Jeong K.H., and Leea L.P. Nanogap capacitors: sensitivity to sample permittivity changes. J. Appl. Phys. 99 (2006) 024305
17. Mashimo S., Umehara T., and Redlin H. Structures of water and primary alcohol studied by microwave dielectric analyses. J. Chem. Phys. 95 (1991) 6257-6260
18. Svačina J. A simple quasi-static determination of basic parameters of multilayer microstrip and coplanar waveguide. IEEE Microwave Guided Wave Lett. 2 (1992) 385-387
19. Chen E., and Chou S.Y. Characteristics of coplanar transmission lines on multilayer substrates: modeling and experiments. IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. 45 (1997) 939-945