Title :
Measuring the complex permittivity of poultry meat with a planar transmission-line sensor
Author :
Roelvink, J. ; Trabelsi, S.
Author_Institution :
Agric. Res. Service, Richard B. Russell Agric. Res. Center, United States Dept. of Agric., Athens, GA, USA
Abstract :
A planar transmission-line sensor is used to measure the complex permittivity of chicken breast meat over the frequency range 0.5 - 5 GHz. Results for the permittivity of nine samples of chicken breast meat are compared to results obtained with a commercially available open-ended coaxial-line probe. It is shown that there is generally less variation in the results obtained with the planar transmission-line sensor for different sample orientations.
Keywords :
UHF measurement; agriculture; coaxial cables; coplanar transmission lines; food products; microwave measurement; permittivity measurement; probes; sensors; chicken breast meat; complex permittivity measurement; frequency 0.5 GHz to 5 GHz; open-ended coaxial-line probe; planar transmission-line sensor; poultry meat; Breast; Coplanar waveguides; Permittivity; Permittivity measurement; Probes; Transmission line measurements; Dielectric properties; biological materials; permittivity measurements; planar transmission lines;
Conference_Titel :
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2013 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4621-4
DOI :
10.1109/I2MTC.2013.6555702
