Comparative analysis of flat multi-element electric field strength sensors with round base and various design features

Abstract

The article provides a comparative analysis of multi-element sensors of an electric field of a flat shape differing in various configurations of sensitive elements, each of which is determined by its design parameters. For this, a generalized mathematical model of the sensor is compiled taking into account its design parameters which affect the error from field inhomogeneity and the spatial range of measurement. Using a generalized mathematical model, graphs of the sensor error are constructed depending on the spatial measurement range and various design parameters of its sensitive elements. The change in design parameters allowed us to model sensitive elements in the form of quadrants and truncated quadrants of a circle. According to the error graphs, it is established that sensitive elements made in the form of quadrants of a circle provide the sensor with a lower error and a larger spatial range of measurement, therefore their use is more appropriate. The studies performed allowed us to obtain the following technical results. Sensors with sensitive elements in the form of a quadrant of a circle have a minimum of an error and a maximum of a spatial range of measurement at design parameters: b = 0 and b0 = 0,2; b = 0 and b0 = 0.4, for which, with a maximum spatial range of measurement equal to unity (a = 1), the errors are respectively minus 3 % and minus 10 %.

Keywords

• multi-element disk electric field sensor
• uniform field
• inhomogeneous field
• point source
• electric field strength
• sensing element
• error from field inhomogeneity
• spatial measurement range