By a close collaboration
with experts on Sensors, we are making
progress in the development of
chemical-loaded antennas embedding carbon
nanotubes and conductive polymers with the
aim to remotely detect the presence and the
amount of some gas such as ammonia, humidity
and ethanol. The Electromagnetic challenge
is maximize the antenna sensitivity to the
changing environment by preserving the
communication performances. Possible
applications are the Precise Agricolture to
sense the plants’ habitat within the fields,
in the greenhouse and then in the stock, but
also to qualify the wellness in the living
and working environments.
Other
experiments concern the tracking of
temperature changes or dips by means of
antennas loaded with shape-memory alloys and
sensitive substrates.
Humidity sensing by
Polymer-loaded UHF RFID Antennas
S Manzari, C Occhiuzzi, S
Nawale, A Catini, C Di Natale, G Marrocco
IEEE Sensors Journal
UHF RFID humidity
sensor tag based on hygroscopic polymeric load
S Manzari, C Occhiuzzi, S
Nawale, A Catini, C Di Natale, G Marrocco
Antennas and Propagation
(EUCAP), 2012 6th European Conference on,
3030-3033
RFID Passive Gas
Sensor Integrating Carbon Nanotubes
C Occhiuzzi, A Rida, G
Marrocco, M Tentzeris
Microwave Theory and
Techniques, IEEE Transactions on 59 (10),
2674-2684
Performance analysis
of pure paraffin wax as RFID tag substrate
S Manzari, AA Babar, L
Ukkonen, AZ Elsherbeni, G Marrocco, L Sydänheimo
Microwave and Optical
Technology Letters 54 (2), 442-446
Multi-chip RFID
antenna integrating shape-memory alloys for
detection of thermal thresholds
S Caizzone, C Occhiuzzi, G
Marrocco
Antennas and Propagation,
IEEE Transactions on, 1-1
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