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Record W2156085985 · doi:10.1109/tmtt.2011.2164093

Carbon-Nanotube Loaded Antenna-Based Ammonia Gas Sensor

2011· article· en· W2156085985 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicGas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMaterials scienceCarbon nanotubeAntenna (radio)OptoelectronicsElectrical impedanceSubstrate (aquarium)Sensitivity (control systems)NanotechnologyAmmonia gasElectronic engineeringAmmoniaComputer scienceElectrical engineeringChemistryTelecommunications

Abstract

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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been researched extensively for gas-sensing applications due to their unique electrical, chemical, and structural properties. Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have been predominantly used due to their superior electrical conductivity and higher sensitivity relative to multiwalled CNTs. This paper presents the design and characterization of a novel planar sensor fabricated on paper substrate to detect small concentrations of ammonia gas, using the shift in resonance frequency of a patch antenna as the discriminator. We have investigated three main design issues in depth. First, functionalization of the SWNTs with a polymer is studied in order to enhance the gas detection sensitivity. Second, a thin film of the functionalized SWNT is characterized to create a surface impedance model for the explanation and prediction of the resonance shift due to different gas concentrations. Finally, as a proof of concept, functionalized SWNTs are integrated into a patch antenna design and the return loss is measured in a closed-system environment to show high sensitivity for low concentrations of ammonia gas. The proposed antenna-based wireless gas sensor can be utilized in several applications, given its small form factor, light weight, and little to no power requirements.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.162
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.197
Teacher spread0.184 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it