Design and development of a novel passive wireless ultrasensitive RF temperature transducer for remote sensing

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2756-2766

  Thai, Trang T ^a,b,c   Mehdi, Jatlaoui M ^b   Chebila, Franck ^b   Aubert, Hervé ^d   Pons, Patrick ^d   Dejean, Gerald R ^c   Tentzeris, Manos M ^a   Plana, Robert ^d  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LAAS CNRS   (France)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) cantilevers; passive remote sensing; radar cross section (RCS); radio frequency transducer; split ring resonators (SRRs); temperature sensor; wireless sensor

Indexed keywords

BIMORPH CANTILEVER; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; EASY FABRICATION; FREQUENCY SHIFT; HARSH ENVIRONMENT; HIGH Q FACTOR; MAXIMUM SENSITIVITY; MILLIMETER WAVE FREQUENCIES; OPERATING FREQUENCY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING; PROOF OF CONCEPT; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SENSOR DESIGNS; SPLIT RING RESONATOR; SPLIT RINGS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASENSITIVE; WIRELESS SENSOR;

DESIGN; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; MEMS; NANOCANTILEVERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; REMOTE SENSING; RING GAGES; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84864561259     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2012.2201463     Document Type: Article

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