Flexible metamaterials for wireless strain sensing
Date
2009-11-04Source Title
Applied Physics Letters
Print ISSN
0003-6951
Publisher
American Institute of Physics
Volume
95
Issue
18
Pages
181105-1 - 181105-3
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
We proposed and demonstrated flexible metamaterial-based wireless strain sensors that include arrays of split ring resonators (SRRs) to telemetrically measure strain. For these metamaterial sensors, we showed that a flexible substrate (e.g., Kapton tape) delivers greater sensitivity and a more linear response as compared to using silicon substrates. Specifically, these tape-based flexible SRR sensors exhibit a significantly improved sensitivity level of 0.292 MHz/kgf with a substantially reduced nonlinearity error of 3% for externally applied mechanical loads up to 250 kgf. These data represent a sixfold increase in sensitivity and a 16-fold reduction in error percentage.
Keywords
Error percentageFlexible substrate
Linear response
Mechanical loads
Non-linearity errors
Silicon substrates
Split ring resonator
Strain sensing
Strain sensors
Electronic equipment
Polyimides
Ring gages
Sensors
Substrates
Metamaterials