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Artificial permittivity and permeability engineering for future generation sub wavelength analogue integrated circuits and systems

Type of the project: Prizes for participation in Horizon 2020
Project duration: 01.01.2021 - 31.12.2021
Project budget: 94.460,54 RON

NANOPOLY project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 829061
(01/01/2019 - 30/09/2022). Website: https://project-nanopoly.com/

 

Objectives

Following the target of the NANOPOLY project, the objective of this project is to fabricate metamaterial-based resonators (namely split-ring resonators or SRRs) operating in the X band (8-12 GHz), and to deposit carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as a sensitive layer for the detection of carbon dioxide (CO2) over the SRRs, for applications in the domain of sensors for environmental pollution monitoring. The fabrication of SRR-based resonators with CNTs in the band stop configuration will allow the realization of gas sensors with high sensitivity. A resonator based on metamaterial with CNTs has a very narrow band, due to a high-quality factor Q and for this reason is very sensitive to any physical phenomenon that affects the materials of the resonator. Since the effect of recombining CO2 molecules with CNTs is a change in the conductivity of nanotubes (and, thus, a change in their dielectric permittivity), at microwaves it will be possible to observe a shift of the resonance frequency depending on the level of absorption. Thus, the obtained sensitivity of the proposed gas sensor will be higher than that of a classic sensor.

 

Financing agency:
Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding – UEFISCDI (www.uefiscdi.gov.ro)
PNIII, P3. European and international cooperation, 3.6. Support, Prizes for participation in Horizon 2020
PN-III-P3-3.6-H2020-2020-0084, Contract no.??/2020.

 

Contact information

National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnologies
Project manager: Prof. Mircea Dragoman
E-mail: [email protected]

Tel: +40-21-269.07.70; +40-21-269.07.74;
Fax: +40-21-269.07.72; +40-21-269.07.76;
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