This paper discusses the problems of impedance sensors in their application. Four case studies of industrial sensors are presented and show how a systematic approach can reduce the effects of undesired physical influences. It is shown that in a first case of ideal environmental conditions, with capacitive sensors even with simple interface electronics a very high precision can be obtained. A se...

This paper describes the antenna design for RF power harvesting system. The design goes through three phases designing of antenna, matching network and rectifier. A dual band Microstrip antenna suspended above ground plane is designed to operate in GSM 1.8 and ISM 2.4 GHz bands. The antenna incorporates the capacitive feed strip which is fed by coaxial probe technique where the inductive impeda...

Plasma electron number density and ion number density in a dc multidipole weakly collisional Ar plasma are measured with a single planar Langmuir probe and a double planar probe, respectively. A factor of two discrepancy between the two density measurements is resolved by applying Sheridan's empirical formula [T. E. Sheridan, Phys. Plasmas 7, 3084 (2000)] for sheath expansion to the double prob...

The impedance of an eddy-current probe changes when the current it induces in an electrical conductor is perturbed by a flaw such as a crack. In predicting the probe signals, it is expedient to introduce idealizations about the nature of the flaw. Eddy-current interaction is considered with an ideal crack having a negligible opening and acting as a impenetrable barrier to electric current. The ...

Active Plasma Resonance Spectroscopy (APRS) is a well-established plasma diagnostic method: radio frequency signal coupled into the via probe or antenna, excites it to oscillate, and response evaluated through mathematical model. The majority of APRS probes are invasive perturb by their physical presence. planar multipole resonance (pMRP) solves this problem: can be integrated chamber wall mini...

In this paper, a novel wideband single-feed circularly polarized patch antenna is presented. The antenna consists of an L-shaped probe, four parasitic patches perpendicular to the probe, and a planar reflector. By modifying the structure of the patches, two orthogonal radiation modes are created to realize the circular polarization in the broadside direction. This antenna exhibits a wide impeda...

– A sample transmission line, which is laid at the bottom of the GUI. There is a slider in the line that indicates the position of measurement probes. The probes are measuring the information of the line, toward the load. By default, the probe is laid next to the load. Thus the initial impedance, measured by the probe is the same as the load. It is possible to enter desired values as a load. Un...

A simple mount capable of securely holding a variety of intracranial probes to the skull was constructed from commonly available clinical consumables. Using this device the cerebral cortical blood flow of preterm lambs was measured using a laser Doppler flow probe, and cerebral pH and cortical electrical impedance were measured in newborn piglets using pH electrodes and Ag/AgCl wire electrodes....

A new high gain wideband L-probe fed inverted EE-H shaped slotted (LEE-H) microstrip patch antenna is presented in this paper. The design adopts contemporary techniques; L-probe feeding, inverted patch structure with air-filled dielectric, and EE-H shaped patch. The integration of these techniques leads to a new patch antenna with a low profile as well as useful operational features, as the bro...

An equivalent circuit model of coaxial probes is derived directly from the intrinsic via circuit model. As all the higher-order evanescent modes have been included analytically in the parasitic circuit elements, only the propagating mode needs to be considered by the simplest uniform-current model of a coaxial probe in numerical solvers such as finite element method (FEM) or finite difference t...