Design and simulation of electroacoustic sensor for exhaled breath analysis

Hazadi, Ahmad Hafiz Faqruddin and Md Ralib, Aliza Aini and Saidin, Norazlina (2018) Design and simulation of electroacoustic sensor for exhaled breath analysis. In: 7th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering, ICCCE 2018, 19th-20th September 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Abstract

The development of medical study has led to the improvement of disease detection through breath analysis. The breath analysis is a study that analyze the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the human exhaled breath which can lead to the detection of diseases. Current technologies such as urine and blood test are invasive and painful. Hence, rapid detection of disease is proposed through breath analysis that is noninvasive. This work emphasizes on the establishment of electroacoustic sensor called quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) sensor. AT-cut quartz was chosen as the piezoelectric material and aluminum as the electrode. The QCM sensor is modelled and simulated using the COMSOL Multiphysics to evaluate the performances in term of resonance frequency, coupling coefficient and sensitivity. The simulated QCM sensor with quartz radius of 385 um resonates at 5.109MHz. The sensitivity of the sensor is 0.8449 MHz/ng after exposed to acetone gas which act as the breath marker for detection of diseases in exhaled breath.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Plenary Papers)
Additional Information:	7658/70619
Uncontrolled Keywords:	QCM sensor, breath analysis and volatile organic compounds.
Subjects:	T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Engineering > Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Depositing User:	Aliza Aini Md Ralib
Date Deposited:	28 Feb 2019 14:00
Last Modified:	28 Feb 2019 17:14
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/70619

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