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Electric Field Sensing with a Modified SRR for Wireless Telecommunications Dosimetry

Split ring resonators (SRRs) have been used extensively in metamaterials, showing a strong localization and enhancement of fields, which significantly improves the sensitivity and resolution of the electromagnetic field sensors. We propose the development of an electric field sensor for 2.4 GHz indu...

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Published in:Electronics (Basel) 2021-02, Vol.10 (3), p.295
Main Authors: Vazquez, Fabian, Villareal, Alejandro, Rodriguez, Alfredo, Martin, Rodrigo, Solis-Najera, Sergio, Melendez, Oscar Rene Marrufo
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Summary:Split ring resonators (SRRs) have been used extensively in metamaterials, showing a strong localization and enhancement of fields, which significantly improves the sensitivity and resolution of the electromagnetic field sensors. We propose the development of an electric field sensor for 2.4 GHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band applications, by modifying the renowned SRR to contain three concentric pairs of rings. The reduced size makes the sensor affordable for experiments by inserting it in phantoms in order to measure the specific absorption rate (SAR). Power was transmitted from a patch antenna to SRR, with a varying set of distances 1λ, 2λ, 3λ, or 5λ. Experimental measurements of power were conducted with and without a cylindrical distilled-water phantom with agar (4.54%) and NaCl (0.95%). We then computed the electric and magnetic fields and the SAR using these experimental readings of power for different distances. Our sensor was able to measure power values from 20 nW to 0.3 µW with no phantom, and 1 nW to 10 nW with a phantom, in accordance with the values reported for radiofrequency (RF) dosimetry. The sensitivity as a function of the distance determined for the specific case of a phantom was 0.3 µW/cm.
ISSN:2079-9292
2079-9292
DOI:10.3390/electronics10030295