DocumentCode
3060058
Title
A Schering Bridge Circuit for A Varactor Based Sensor Application
Author
Jones, Erica N. ; Fitzsimmons, Andrij ; Fortener, Benjamin ; Patterson, Mark ; Subramanyam, Guru
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Dayton, Dayton, OH
fYear
2008
fDate
16-18 July 2008
Firstpage
390
Lastpage
392
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to produce a concept for a wireless capacitive sensor application using a ferroelectric thin film based varactor. The varactor is based on the nonlinear tunability of Ba0.6Sr0.4TiO3 (BST). A Schering bridge circuit is utilized for this study, for optimizing the output response.
Keywords
barium compounds; bridge circuits; strontium compounds; varactors; wireless sensor networks; Ba0.6Sr0.4TiO3; ferroelectric thin film; nonlinear tunability; schering bridge circuit; varactor based sensor; wireless capacitive sensor; Bridge circuits; Capacitors; Detectors; Ferroelectric materials; Impedance; Switches; Thin film sensors; Varactors; Voltage; Wireless sensor networks;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 2008. NAECON 2008. IEEE National
Conference_Location
Dayton, OH
ISSN
7964-0977
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2615-7
Electronic_ISBN
7964-0977
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/NAECON.2008.4806578
Filename
4806578
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