Proceedings of the 1st International Multi-Disciplinary Conference Theme: Sustainable Development and Smart Planning, IMDC-SDSP 2020, Cyperspace, 28-30 June 2020

Research Article

A Metamaterial-Based Microwave Sensor for Liquid Dielectrics Characterization

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.28-6-2020.2297951,
        author={Chemseddine  Zebiri and Widad  Mshwat and Jamal  Kosha and Mohamed  Lashab and Issa  Elfergani and Djamel  Sayad and Said  Mosbah and J  Rodreguez and Yasir  AlYasir and Raed  Abd-Alhameed},
        title={A Metamaterial-Based Microwave Sensor for Liquid Dielectrics Characterization},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st International Multi-Disciplinary Conference Theme: Sustainable Development and Smart Planning, IMDC-SDSP 2020, Cyperspace, 28-30 June 2020},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={IMDC-SDSP},
        year={2020},
        month={9},
        keywords={metamaterials sensor quality factor bandwidth resonant frequency dielectric characterization complex permittivity spiral csrr},
        doi={10.4108/eai.28-6-2020.2297951}
    }
    
  • Chemseddine Zebiri
    Widad Mshwat
    Jamal Kosha
    Mohamed Lashab
    Issa Elfergani
    Djamel Sayad
    Said Mosbah
    J Rodreguez
    Yasir AlYasir
    Raed Abd-Alhameed
    Year: 2020
    A Metamaterial-Based Microwave Sensor for Liquid Dielectrics Characterization
    IMDC-SDSP
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.28-6-2020.2297951
Chemseddine Zebiri1,*, Widad Mshwat2, Jamal Kosha2, Mohamed Lashab3, Issa Elfergani4, Djamel Sayad5, Said Mosbah6, J Rodreguez7, Yasir AlYasir2, Raed Abd-Alhameed2
  • 1: 1.Department of Electronics, University of Ferhat Abbas, Sétif -1-, 19000 Sétif, Algeria. ; 2.School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Bradford, BD71DP, UK
  • 2: School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Bradford, BD71DP, UK.
  • 3: Department of Electronics, University of Larbi Ben M’hidi, 4000 Oum-elbouagui, Algeria.
  • 4: Instituto de Telecomunicações, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal.
  • 5: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of 20 Aout 1955-Skikda, 21000 Skikda, Algeria
  • 6: Department of Electronics, University of Ferhat Abbas, Sétif -1-, 19000 Sétif, Algeria.
  • 7: Instituto de Telecomunicações, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal
*Contact email: czebiri@univ-setif.dz

Abstract

In this work, we propose a metamaterial-based microwave sensor. The main body of the proposed sensor is a microstrip coupled complementary spiral rectangular resonator (CSRR). At resonance, a strong electric field is established along the sides of the CSRR creating a very sensitive area to change in the nearby of the dielectric environment. The enhanced proposed contactless sensor uses liquid samples placed normal to the sensor surface retained within capillary glass tubes. Quick analysis of the liquid dielectric properties is carried out by simply replacing the capillary tube with a new sample.The introduced liquid sample shifts the resonance frequency and alters the peak attenuation of the CSRR resonance. The liquid sample dielectric properties may be estimated by establishing an empirical relationship between the resonance characteristics and the liquid complex relative permittivity. In this work, we could improve our device by simple changing of the CSRR shape of a recently published work, this makes improvement on the characteristics of the sensor and lower its working frequency to 1.8GHz.