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<p>In the measurement of mutual capacitance between electrodes both the coupling and the leakage effect contribute to the measurement result whereas the leakage mode is dominant in the self capacitance mode. While the coupling effect is mainly defined by the geometry and material distribution close to the electrodes, the root cause or modulation of the leakage effect may be far away from the electrode. It is shown that utilizing both effects may lead to an improvement of an ECT-like scenario reconstruction performance in open environments (e.g. pretouch applications).</p></abstract>

In the measurement of mutual capacitance between electrodes both the coupling and the leakage effect contribute to the measurement result whereas the leakage mode is dominant in the self capacitance mode. While the coupling effect is mainly defined by the geometry and material distribution close to the electrodes, the root cause or modulation of the leakage effect may be far away from the electrode. It is shown that utilizing both effects may lead to an improvement of an ECT-like scenario reconstruction performance in open environments (e.g. pretouch applications).

Investigations on the Leakage Effect in Capacitive Sensing

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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In the measurement of mutual capacitance between electrodes both the coupling and the leakage effect contribute to the measurement result whereas the leakage...

Investigations on the Leakage Effect in Capacitive Sensing

Publicado en línea: 15 feb 2020

Páginas: 1 - 5

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2019-121

Palabras clave
leakage effect, capacitive sensing, open environment, ECT, reconstruction

© 2019 Authors., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Investigations on the Leakage Effect in Capacitive Sensing

Publicado en línea: 15 feb 2020

Páginas: 1 - 5

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2019-121

Palabras claveleakage effect, capacitive sensing, open environment, ECT, reconstruction

© 2019 Authors., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Palabras clave
leakage effect, capacitive sensing, open environment, ECT, reconstruction