This paper presents a symmetric-type microstrip triple-band bandstop filter incorporating a tri-section meandered-line stepped impedance resonator (SIR). The length of each section of the meandered line is 0.16, 0.15, and 0.83 times the guided wavelength (λ
g), so that the filter features three stop bands at 2.59 GHz, 6.88 GHz, and 10.67 GHz, respectively. Two symmetric SIRs are employed with a microstrip transmission line to obtain wide bandwidths of 1.12, 1.34, and 0.89 GHz at the corresponding stop bands. Furthermore, an equivalent circuit model of the proposed filter is developed, and the model matches the electromagnetic simulations well. The return losses of the fabricated filter are measured to be −29.90 dB, −28.29 dB, and −26.66 dB while the insertion losses are 0.40 dB, 0.90 dB, and 1.10 dB at the respective stop bands. A drastic reduction in the size of the filter was achieved by using a simplified architecture based on a meandered-line SIR.
Flexible and wearable pressure sensors have attracted extensive attention in domains, such as electronic skin, medical monitoring and human machine interaction. However, developing a pressure sensor with high sensitivity, mechanical...
This letter describes the implementation of a dual-band bandstop filter based on a circular, folded, symmetric-type, two-section, meandered-line, stepped-impedance resonator (SIR), resonating at f 1 5 3.17 GHz and f 2 5 8.50 GHz. The length of each section of meandered-line is equal to 0.30 and is 0.60 times the guided wavelength (k g ), which can be properly tuned to control the first and second resonant frequencies. The attenuation level of the signal at 5.83 GHz can be increased by the proper placement of transmission zero, which ultimately helps to generate a controllable ultrawide stop band bandwidth. This filter reached an attenuation level of 32.75 and 26.21 dB with insertion losses of 0.43 and 0.39 dB at the respective stop bands. The size of the filter was drastically reduced using a simplified architecture as a circular, folded, meandered-line, SIR.
We proposed the complex permittivity characterization of serum sample on an air-bridge enhanced capacitor for the mediator-free glucose sensor in the radio frequency of 7.37 GHz. An air-bridge enhanced capacitor with integrated passive device process on a gallium arsenide substrate was implemented for the design, fabrication, and testing to enable effective quantifiable detection of glucose levels in human serum. The decomposition parameters such as complex permittivity, air-bridge capacitance, phase and correlation coefficient were extracted from the measured S-parameter. A high detectable resolution of 0.61 MHz/mg dl−1 and 3.4 pF/mg dl−1 for ten different subjects of serum in the concentration range of 65 to 245 mg/dl at a minimum glucose concentration of 65 mg/dl was realized. The findings support the development of resonance-based sensing by the characterization of complex permittivity with excellent linearity having a correlation coefficient of 0.9979, short assay time of 40 s, limit of quantization of 29.37 mg/dl, and minimum detectable glucose level of about 9.69 mg/dl.
In recent years, flexible pressure sensors have become an important part of soft electronics due to their tactile sensing abilities. However, manufacturing pressure sensors with high sensing performance and excellent...
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