Design of miniaturized highly sensitive liquid sensor at microwave frequency

Abstract

In this paper, we have presented a simple, miniaturized, and highly sensitive liquid sensor, which determines the dielectric properties of liquids at microwave frequency. In the proposed design, the concept of interdigital capacitor (IDC) is employed to construct the sensor. The proposed IDC based sensor responds differently depending on the liquids' dielectric property. The proposed structure utilizes the shift in resonance frequency and peak attenuation as the sensing parameter to determine the complex dielectric permittivity of the unknown liquids. The advantage of the proposed sensor structure lies in its compactness (0.08λ 0 × 0.08λ 0 × 0.003λ 0) and high sensitivity, 0.42%. The designed sensor can also be used in the biomedical field for noninvasive bioliquid characterization.

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