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Low Noise and Low Leakage Electric Field Imaging
Description
Imaging using electric fields could provide a cheaper, safer, and easier alternative to the standard methods used for imaging. The viability of electric field imaging at very low frequencies using D-dot sensors has already been investigated and proven. The new goal is to determine if imaging is viable at high frequencies. In order to accomplish this, the operational amplifiers used in the very low frequency imaging test set up must be replaced with ones that have higher bandwidth. The trade-off of using these amplifiers is that they have a typical higher input leakage current on the order of 100 compared to the standard. Using a modified circuit design technique that reduces input leakage current of the operational amplifiers used in the imaging test setup, a printed circuit board with D-dot sensors is fabricated to identify the frequency limitations of electric field imaging. Data is collected at both low and high frequencies as well as low peak voltage. The data is then analyzed to determine the range in intensity of electric field and frequency that this circuit low-leakage design can accurately detect a signal. Data is also collected using another printed circuit board that uses the standard circuit design technique. The data taken from the different boards is compared to identify if the modified circuit design technique allows for higher sensitivity imaging. In conclusion, this research supports that using low-leakage design techniques can allow for signal detection comparable to that of the standard circuit design. The low-leakage design allowed for sensitivity within a factor two to that of the standard design. Although testing at higher frequencies was limited, signal detection for the low-leakage design was reliable up until 97 kHz, but further experimentation is needed to determine the upper frequency limits.
Date Created
2016-12
Contributors
- Lin, Richard (Co-author)
- Angell, Tyler (Co-author)
- Allee, David (Thesis director)
- Chung, Hugh (Committee member)
- Electrical Engineering Program (Contributor)
- W. P. Carey School of Business (Contributor)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
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Extent
29 pages
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Academic Year 2016-2017
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.42683
Level of coding
minimal
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- 2021-08-11 04:09:57
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