Planar Microwave Sensors (Hardcover)

Comprehensive resource detailing the latest advances in microwave and wireless sensors implemented in planar technology

Planar Microwave Sensors is an authoritative resource on the subject, discussing the main relevant sensing strategies, working principles, and applications on the basis of the authors' own experience and background, while also highlighting the most relevant contributions to the topic reported by international research groups. The authors provide an overview of planar microwave sensors grouped by chapters according to their working principle.

In each chapter, the working principle is explained in detail and the specific sensor design strategies are discussed, including validation examples at both simulation and experimental level. The most suited applications in each case are also reported. The necessary theory and analysis for sensor design are further provided, with special emphasis on performance improvement (i.e., sensitivity and resolution optimization, dynamic range, etc.). Lastly, the work covers a number of applications, from material characterization to biosensing, including motion control sensors, microfluidic sensors, industrial sensors, and more.

Sample topics covered in the work include:

• Non-resonant and resonant sensors, reflective-mode and transmission-mode sensors, single-ended and differential sensors, and contact and contactless sensors
• Design guidelines for sensor performance optimization and analytical methods to retrieve the variables of interest from the measured sensor responses.
• Radiofrequency identification (RFID) sensor types, prospective applications, and materials/technologies towards green sensors implementation
• Comparisons between different technologies for sensing and the advantages and limitations of microwave sensors, particularly planar sensors

Engineers and qualified professionals involved in sensor technologies, along with undergraduate and graduate students in related programs of study, can harness the valuable information inside Planar Microwave Sensors to gain complete foundational knowledge on the subject and stay up to date on the latest research and developments in the field.

《平面微波感測器》是一本詳細介紹平面技術中最新進展的微波和無線感測器的綜合資源。本書是一個權威的資源，根據作者們自己的經驗和背景，討論了主要的感測策略、工作原理和應用，同時還突出了國際研究團體對該主題的最重要貢獻。作者們根據工作原理將平面微波感測器分為不同章節進行概述。在每個章節中，詳細解釋了工作原理，並討論了具體的感測器設計策略，包括在模擬和實驗水平上的驗證示例。同時還報告了每種情況下最適合的應用。此外，還提供了感測器設計所需的理論和分析，特別強調性能改進（例如，靈敏度和解析度優化、動態範圍等）。最後，本書涵蓋了多種應用，從材料表徵到生物感測，包括運動控制感測器、微流體感測器、工業感測器等。本書涵蓋的樣本主題包括：非共振和共振感測器、反射模式和傳輸模式感測器、單端和差分感測器、接觸和非接觸感測器；感測器性能優化的設計指南和從測量感測器響應中提取感興趣變量的分析方法；射頻識別（RFID）感測器類型、前景應用和材料/技術對綠色感測器實施的影響；不同感測技術的比較以及微波感測器（尤其是平面感測器）的優點和限制。工程師和從事感測器技術的合格專業人士，以及相關專業學科的本科和研究生學生，可以利用《平面微波感測器》中的寶貴信息，獲得有關該主題的完整基礎知識，並及時了解該領域的最新研究和發展。

Professor Ferran Martín (PhD, IEEE Fellow), Paris Vélez (PhD, Senior Member IEEE), Jonathan Muñoz-Enano (Graduate Student Member IEEE), and Lijuan Su (PhD, Member IEEE) are researchers at CIMITEC, a Research and Technology-Transfer Centre (headed by Ferran Martín) affiliated to the Departament d'Enginyeria Electrònica at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), in Spain. Their activity in recent years has been mainly devoted to the design and applications of planar microwave sensors. They have generated dozens of journal papers and conference contributions related to the topic, published in the top international journals and conferences in the field of sensors and microwave technologies.

費蘭·馬丁教授（博士，IEEE院士）、巴黎·韋萊茲（博士，IEEE高級會員）、喬納森·穆尼奧斯-埃納諾（IEEE研究生會員）和李娟蘇（博士，IEEE會員）是西班牙巴塞隆納自治大學（UAB）電子工程系附屬的CIMITEC研究與技術轉移中心（由費蘭·馬丁領導）。近年來，他們的主要研究方向是平面微波傳感器的設計和應用。他們在該領域的頂級國際期刊和會議上發表了數十篇與該主題相關的論文和會議論文。