Development of Passive, Wireless Strain Sensor with Novel Inductor Design
應用新型電感於被動式無線應變計的研發
This study, we present a passive strain sensor which employing LC circuit resonant frequency measuring to measure the strain. Our objective is to enhance the sensitivity.
One of our designs to enhance the sensitivity is embedded solenoidal inductor. It works with a capacitor to become a parallel-connect LC tank circuit. When applying a strain to the embedded solenoidal inductor, not only the length of the inductor changed, but also affected the cross-section area of the inductor due to the possion’s ratio of the embedding material. Then the length and cross-section area made the inductance vary. The embedded solenoidal inductor should work with saw-shaped solenoidal inductor because of the low radial rigidity. The sensitivity of the embedded saw-shaped solenoidal inductor is 121.9kHz/0.01ε measured by Agilent Network Analyzer 4395A.
Another design to enhance the sensitivity is the embedded saw-shaped solenoidal inductor with a thin-film comb capacitor added on. When applying a strain to the embedded solenoidal inductor with a thin-film comb capacitor added on, the length and cross-section area of the inductor and the gap of the thin-film comb capacitor all changed. Which made more changes to the LC resonant frequency then enhancing the sensitivity. With our model, we predict the sensitivity of the embedded saw-shaped solenoidal inductor with a thin-film comb capacitor added on will be 167.6 kHz/0.01ε.
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