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PIER PIER B PIER C PIER M PIER Letters
2012-03-06
Design and Full-Wave Analysis of Piezoelectric Micro-Needle Antenna Sensors for Enhanced Near-Field Detection of Skin Cancer
By
Diego Caratelli,

    Dr. Diego Caratelli

    The Antenna Company Nederland B.V.

    The Netherlands

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Alexander Georgievic Yarovoy,

    Dr. Alexander Georgievic Yarovoy

    EEMCS

    Delft University of Technology

    the Netherlands

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Alessandro Massaro,

    Dr. Alessandro Massaro

    Center of Bio-Molecular Nanotechnology

    Italian Institute of Technology IIT

    Italy

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Aime Lay-Ekuakille

    Prof. Aime Lay-Ekuakille

    Department of Innovation Engineering

    University of Salento

    Italy

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Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 125, 391-413, 2012
doi:10.2528/PIER11101205
Abstract
The design and full-wave analysis of piezoelectric micro-needle antenna sensors for minimally invasive near-field detection of cancer-related anomalies of the skin is presented. To this end, an accurate locally conformal finite-difference time-domain procedure is adopted. In this way, an insightful understanding of the physical processes affecting the characteristics of the considered class of devices is achieved. This is important to improve the structure reliability, so optimizing the design cycle. In this regard, a suitable sensor layout is described, and discussed in detail. The major benefit of the proposed system stems from the potential for obtaining a superior performance in terms of input impedance matching and efficiency, in combination with an electronically tunable steering property of the near-field radiation intensity which can be profitably used to enhance the illumination and, hence, the localization of possible malignant lesions in the host medium. By using the detailed modeling approach, an extensive parametric study is carried out to analyze the effect produced on the sensor response by variations of the complex permittivity of the skin due to the presence of anomalous cells, and thus useful heuristic discrimination formulas for the evaluation of the exposure level to cancer risk are derived.
Citation
Diego Caratelli, Alexander Georgievic Yarovoy, Alessandro Massaro, and Aime Lay-Ekuakille, "Design and Full-Wave Analysis of Piezoelectric Micro-Needle Antenna Sensors for Enhanced Near-Field Detection of Skin Cancer," Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 125, 391-413, 2012.
doi:10.2528/PIER11101205
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