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Analysis of a concentric coplanar capacitive sensor using a spectral domain approach
Center for Nondestructive Evaluation Conference Papers, Posters and Presentations
  • Tianming Chen, Iowa State University
  • Jiming Song, Iowa State University
  • John R. Bowler, Iowa State University
  • Nicola Bowler, Iowa State University
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Conference
Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation
Publication Date
7-1-2010
Geolocation
(32.7153292, -117.1572551)
Abstract
Previously, concentric coplanar capacitive sensors have been developed to quantitatively characterize the permittivity or thickness of one layer in multi‐layered dielectrics. Electrostatic Green’s functions due to a point source at the surface of one‐ to three‐layered test‐pieces were first derived in the spectral domain, under the Hankel transform. Green’s functions in the spatial domain were then obtained by using the appropriate inverse transform. Utilizing the spatial domain Green’s functions, the sensor surface charge density was calculated using the method of moments and the sensor capacitance was calculated from its surface charge. In the current work, the spectral domain Green’s functions are used to derive directly the integral equation for the sensor surface charge density in the spectral domain, using Parseval’s theorem. Then the integral equation is discretized to form matrix equations using the method of moments. It is shown that the spatial domain approach is more computationally efficient, whereas the Green’s function derivation and numerical implementation are easier for the spectral domain approach.
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Copyright 2011 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.

This article appeared in AIP Conference Proceedings 1335 (2011): 1647–1654 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3592126.

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American Institute of Physics
Language
en
Citation Information
Tianming Chen, Jiming Song, John R. Bowler and Nicola Bowler. "Analysis of a concentric coplanar capacitive sensor using a spectral domain approach" San Diego, CA(2010)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jiming_song/3/