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Planar Microwave Sensor with High Sensitivity for Material Characterization Based on Square Split Ring Resonator (SSRR) for Solid and Liquid Maizatul Alice Meor Said; Zahriladha Zakaria; Mohamad Harris Misran; Mohd Azlishah bin Othman; Redzuan Abdul Manap; Abd Shukur bin Jaafar; Shadia Suhaimi; Nurmala Irdawaty Hassan
EMITTER International Journal of Engineering Technology Vol 11 No 1 (2023)
Publisher : Politeknik Elektronika Negeri Surabaya (PENS)

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24003/emitter.v11i1.758

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Microwave resonator sensors are the most extensively used sensors in the food industries, quality assurance, medical, and manufacturing. Planar resonant technique is chosen as the medium for characterizing dielectric properties of material due to its compact in size, low cost and easy to fabricate. But these techniques have a low Q-factor and little sensitivity. This work uses the perturbation approach to overcome this technique's flaw, which is that Q-factor and resonant frequency are affected by the resonator's dielectric properties. This suggested sensor operated at 2.5GHz between 1GHz and 4GHz for material characterisation of solid and liquid samples. These sensors were constructed on a substrate made of RT/Duroid Roger 5880, which has a copper layer that is 0.0175 mm thick and has a dielectric constant of 2.2. This square split ring resonator (SSRR) sensor thus generates narrower resonant, low insertion loss, and a high Q-factor value of 430 at 2.5GHz. The SSRR sensor's sensitivity is 98.59%, which is higher than that of past studies. The application of the suggested sensor as a tool for material characterisation, particularly for identifying material attributes, is supported by this findings.
Performance Comparison of UWB Single Balanced Schottky Diode Mixers for RF Front-End Applications in 3-10 GHz Band Shairi, Noor Azwan; Mohammed , Yahya Al-gumaei; Zakaria, Zahriladha; Maizatul Alice Meor Said; Misran, Mohamad Harris; Abdullah Mohammed, Zaghir Zobilah
Advance Sustainable Science Engineering and Technology Vol. 7 No. 2 (2025): February-April
Publisher : Science and Technology Research Centre Universitas PGRI Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26877/jsy73y58

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This paper compares two single balanced mixer designs for ultra-wideband  (UWB) of RF front-end at frequencies ranging from 3 to 10 GHz. The proposed mixer designs use two balun topologies for varying mixer performances. Thus, Design 1 incorporates a Coupled Line Balun and Design 2 incorporates a Branch Line Balun. Both designs make use of Skyworks' SMS7621 Schottky diodes, which have a low junction capacitance, and the Rogers RO4350B substrate, which has a dielectric constant of 3.48. The Coupled Line Balun (Design 1) offers a total length of 88 mm, whereas the Branch Line Balun (Design 2) creates a more compact structure with 48 mm. This paper's thorough analysis and measurements show each design's benefits and drawbacks in terms of circuit size and performance. The simulations and measurement results of both designs generally showed a conversion loss of less than 20 dB and LO-RF isolation of better than 50 dB.