Thermal Modeling of Resonant Scatterers and Reflectometry Approach for Remote Temperature Sensing
- 26 July 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
- Vol. 69 (11), 4720-4734
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tmtt.2021.3096986
Abstract
Thermal modeling of different transmission lines (TLs) based on resonant scatterers is presented. The coplanar strip (CPS) and microstrip (MS) TLs are used to model resonators and to introduce the thermal dependence. A reflectometry approach is employed to validate the model by detecting the scatterers’ resonance frequency and comparing it with analytical expressions. The observable shift in the resonance frequency of the scatterers with temperature variations is due to the thermal expansion of metals and temperature dependence of the substrate permittivity. Since all the measurements are done remotely with no direct line of sight, it is shown how such a reflectometry approach can be used for remote temperature sensing using a passive label composed of resonators. Unlike previous works in this domain where the thermal dependence is considered empirically, the introduced model is used to take into account all thermal effects affecting the resonant scatterers allowing to link rigorously the variations of the measured resonance frequency with the temperature without any lookup table. Temperature sensing using very simple TLs based on resonant scatterers was demonstrated in a real environment. A temperature error of less than 3 °C is obtained. Once the temperature has been determined, it is possible to go back to the TL parameters, such as the effective permittivity and the physical length.Keywords
Funding Information
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (772539)
- Université Grenoble Alpes
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