Results in Physics (May 2021)

High-Q Hg-anapole resonator with microstrip line coupling for high-precision temperature sensing applications

  • Liang Ma,
  • Wenxian Zheng,
  • Jian Li,
  • Dexu Chen,
  • Wenjiao Wang,
  • Yifeng Liu,
  • Yuedan Zhou,
  • Yongjun Yang,
  • Yongjun Huang,
  • Guangjun Wen

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24
p. 104172

Abstract

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In this paper, to achieve a high-precision temperature sensing, a modified anapole resonator based on the liquid–metal (Hg) with high Q-factor and large thermal-sensitivity properties is proposed. The high-Q resonance of the designed Hg-anapole resonator is excited by a simple microstrip coupling line with large electromagnetic energy coupling rate. The detailed numerical optimization and experimental demonstration are discussed, and the measured temperature sensitivity of 17.14 MHz/°C and figure-of-merit (FOM) of 0.3/°C are achieved based on the proposed Hg-anapole resonator. This kind of liquid high-Q metamaterial unit can be widely used to realize the high-precision sensing.

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