Wide Remote-Range and Accurate Wireless LC Temperature-Humidity Sensor Enabled by Efficient Mutual Interference Mitigation

ACS Sens. 2023 Dec 22;8(12):4531-4541. doi: 10.1021/acssensors.3c01200. Epub 2023 Nov 25.

Abstract

Inductor-capacitor wireless integrated sensors (LCWISs) featuring untethered and multitarget measurements are promising in health monitoring and human-machine interfaces. However, the lack of a profound understanding of the internal interference hinders the design of the LCWIS, which has a wide remote sensing range and high accuracy. Herein, a mutually exclusive effect of the mutual inductance interferences in LCWIS was revealed and quantified, enabling a design with a wide range of remote sensing (working distance comparable to the single-target device, working radius: 4 mm) and 16% reduced area. As a key to accurate multitarget measurement, a quantified target interference model based on interference decomposition was proposed to understand the target interferences, providing profound guidance for the design of ultra-accurate LCWIS. As a proof, we designed a cellulose-polyacrylate-cellulose LCWIS (CPC-LCWIS) with ultrahigh accuracies (∼1.2% RH and ∼0.18 °C) beyond commercial wired gauges. The CPC-LCWIS with full-coil sensing structures achieved exceptionally high sensitivities (0.36 MHz/°C and 0.25 MHz/% RH). The CPC-LCWIS was validated for health monitoring and human-machine interfaces. The concept studied in this work provides profound guidance for designing a high-performance flexible LCWIS for advanced wearable electronics.

Keywords: dual-target sensing; inductor-capacitor device; integrated electronics; mutual interference; wireless sensor.

MeSH terms

  • Cellulose*
  • Electronics*
  • Humans
  • Humidity
  • Temperature

Substances

  • Cellulose