Voice Prosthesis Implantable UHF RFID Self-Sensing Tag for Microbial Growth Detection

Passive UHF RFID Voice Prosthesis Mounted Sensor for Microbial Growth Detection

“…Unlike UHF holds preference to HF (highfrequency) designs due to the ability to increase matched system data rate transfers, higher gain as well as increased read ranges [16]. Utilising read range can allow sensitive sensor development as presented below in this extended version of the RFID-TA conference paper [14].…”

“…Therefore, the actual growth ranged from 0 µm to 65 µm thickness as the 0 µm thickness (no growth) includes the 10 µm polymer coating needed for C. albicans growth to occur. This is the same experimental methodology as presented in [14]. Also, most studies show that early C. albicans biofilm growth corresponds to a thickness near 30 µm and below 100 µm before biofilm shedding occurs [3]- [6].…”

“…Copper etched 'self-sensing' LRC circuit design can lessen the costs associated with UHF RFID fabrication while reducing human tissue capacitive loading effect by etching inductive or capacitive components within the design geometry [7], [12]. The presented design is an adjusted version of [13] first presented in the RFID-TA 2019 conference [14]. The original This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.…”