2022 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - IMS 2022
- Anthology ID:
- G22-183
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- Year:
- 2022
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- Venue:
- GWF
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- Publisher:
- IEEE
- URL:
- https://gwf-uwaterloo.github.io/gwf-publications/G22-183
- DOI:
Passive Disposable Microwave Sensor for Online Microplastic Contamination Monitoring
Maziar Shafiei
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Zahra Abbasi
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Carolyn L. Ren
In this paper, non-contact microplastic concentration monitoring is enabled using a sensitivity-enhanced planar microwave sensor. The sensing platform is a tag-reader structure that consists of a dual-resonator tag and a passive microwave reader. The dual-tag structure is combined with a silicon reservoir as a sample container and is energized through the electromagnetic (EM) coupling with the reader. The extremely sensitive area of the tag resonators is exposed to the sample under the test; it creates an exceptional microplastic deposition monitoring with the concentration of the microplastic in the liquid under the test as low as 400K particles/L. The sensor monitors the deposition of microplastic particles in the mixed liquid in a real-time manner and reflects it as the frequency resonance variation in the transmission response.