Journal
SENSORS
Volume 22, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s22124406
Keywords
electrical impedance spectroscopy; capacitive-coupling impedance spectroscopy; field-programmable gate array
Funding
- SECOM Science and Technology Foundation
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This study aims to verify whether the novel algorithm of capacitive-coupling impedance spectroscopy (CIS) and circuit parameter estimation can obtain frequency spectra and circuit parameters in milliseconds.
In principle, the recently proposed capacitive-coupling impedance spectroscopy (CIS) has the capability to acquire frequency spectra of complex electrical impedance sequentially on a millisecond timescale. Even when the measured object with time-varying unknown resistance R-x is capacitively coupled with the measurement electrodes with time-varying unknown capacitance C-x, CIS can be measured. As a proof of concept, this study aimed to develop a prototype that implemented the novel algorithm of CIS and circuit parameter estimation to verify whether the frequency spectra and circuit parameters could be obtained in milliseconds and whether time-varying impedance could be measured. This study proposes a dedicated processor that was implemented as field-programmable gate arrays to perform CIS, estimate R-x and C-x, and their digital-to-analog conversions at a certain time, and to repeat them continually. The proposed processor executed the entire sequence in the order of milliseconds. Combined with a front-end nonsinusoidal oscillator and interfacing circuits, the processor estimated the fixed R-x and fixed C-x with reasonable accuracy. Additionally, the combined system with the processor succeeded in detecting a quick optical response in the resistance of the cadmium sulfide (CdS) photocell connected in series with a capacitor, and in reading out their resistance and capacitance independently as voltages in real-time.
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