TY - GEN
T1 - Hydrogel-based integrated antenna-pH sensor
AU - Kim, Jeong Il
AU - Ding, Zhenwen
AU - Lee, Sang No
AU - Yook, Jong Gwan
AU - Ziaie, Babak
AU - Peroulis, Dimitrios
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - In this paper, a miniaturized integrated antenna-sensor based on a pH-sensitive hydrogel is designed, fabricated and characterized. The proposed sensor geometry is based on a 5-mm-long slot antenna whose frequency is controlled by a back-metal coated on the pH-sensitive hydrogel that is patterned on a glass substrate. When the antenna is immersed in a solution whose pH changes from 5 to 12 it shows a variation of its resonant frequency by approximately 160MHz around a center frequency of 21.7GHz. Except for an abnormal behavior around the pH=1 state caused by the back-metal-hydrogel bond, the pH-antenna frequency mapping exhibits a well-defined monotonie region from pH=5 to 12 thus covering many practical solutions.
AB - In this paper, a miniaturized integrated antenna-sensor based on a pH-sensitive hydrogel is designed, fabricated and characterized. The proposed sensor geometry is based on a 5-mm-long slot antenna whose frequency is controlled by a back-metal coated on the pH-sensitive hydrogel that is patterned on a glass substrate. When the antenna is immersed in a solution whose pH changes from 5 to 12 it shows a variation of its resonant frequency by approximately 160MHz around a center frequency of 21.7GHz. Except for an abnormal behavior around the pH=1 state caused by the back-metal-hydrogel bond, the pH-antenna frequency mapping exhibits a well-defined monotonie region from pH=5 to 12 thus covering many practical solutions.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICSENS.2007.4388494
DO - 10.1109/ICSENS.2007.4388494
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:48349127573
SN - 1424412617
SN - 9781424412617
T3 - Proceedings of IEEE Sensors
SP - 695
EP - 698
BT - The 6th IEEE Conference on SENSORS, IEEE SENSORS 2007
T2 - 6th IEEE Conference on SENSORS, IEEE SENSORS 2007
Y2 - 28 October 2007 through 31 October 2007
ER -