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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1992
Filed:
Apr. 15, 1991
Michael Cummings, Howell, NJ (US);
Roland Cadotte, Jr, Freehold, NJ (US);
Adam Rachlin, Eatontown, NJ (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
An ambient condition sensor is embodied in an oscillator which generates an output signal having a frequency which is proportional to the ambient condition of the environment in which it is located. The oscillator includes a ring resonator consisting of a metallic ring located in the output plane of a grounded source gallium arsenide MESFET type transistor oscillator formed on a temperature sensitive dielectric substrate. The circumference of the ring is directly related to the ring resonator's resonant frequency. More particularly, the circumference of the ring is a multiple of the wavelength of the oscillator's output signal. Such a device permits unmanned, remote and inexpensive temperature sensing in places generally unsuited for operator presence.