Zulkarnay Zakaria
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Zulkarnay Zakaria
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Zulkarnay, Zakaria
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Zakaria, Z. N.
Zakaria, Zulkarnay
Zakaria, Z.
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24403085300
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F-5218-2010

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  • Publication
    Dielectric spectroscopy technique for carbohydrate characterization of fragrant rice, brown rice and white rice
    ( 2017-11-20)
    Cheng Ee Meng
    ;
    Kok Yeow You
    ;
    Lee KimYee
    ;
    Abbas Z.
    ;
    Hasliza A Rahim @ Samsuddin
    ;
    Khor Shing Fhan
    ;
    Zulkarnay Zakaria
    ;
    Lee Y.S.
    This study was conducted to investigate the feasibility of microwave dielectric spectroscopic technique in characterizing commercial rice due to different level of moisture content. There are some unethical rice industry runner mixes good qualities of rice which can be sold at high price with low cost and quality of rice to maximize profit. It causes fraudulency in business and great lost in term of money to nation who take rice as staple food. It happens frequently in Asian country which is active in agricultural activities. This technique is implemented using Keysight E8362B network analyzer in conjunction with an Keysight 85070E dielectric probe ranging from 200 MHz to 10 GHz. The samples of study are commercially available at market, namely fragrant rice, white rice, and brown rice, respectively. These are the popular and favorite rice for Malaysian due its delicacy and affordable price. Nutrient level for fragrant rice, white rice, and brown rice in terms of protein, moisture, carbohydrate and fat are different and unique. It leads to various electromagnetic responses toward frequency. Dielectric and reflection measurement were conducted to characterize these rice. The presence of polar and non-polar molecules in nutrient of rice causes variation of dielectric and reflection behavior over the operating frequency range.
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    Development of five port reflectometer for reflection based sensing system
    ( 2017-03-13)
    Setno Baharuddin
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    Cheng Ee Meng
    ;
    Lee Kim Yee
    ;
    Siti Khadijah Za'aba
    ;
    Nurul Syahirah Khalid
    ;
    Zulkifly Abbas
    ;
    Nashrul Fazli Mohd Nasir
    ;
    Mohd Afendi Rojan
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    Zulkarnay Zakaria
    Five-Port Reflectometer is a microwave passivedevice where it implements the six-port algorithm to measure the complex reflection coefficient of material under test (MUT) through reflection on interface between MUT and microwave sensor. Initially, the Six-Port Reflectometer (SPR) was introduced by Engen in 1977 and major component used insix-port technique was designed in many types. When Riblet and Hanssonproposed ring junction with 5 ports only on 1981. Six ports ring junction has been reduced to five ports. In this paper, a dual frequency five ports ring junction circuit was designed, simulated and fabricated for reflection based sensing system. The fabricated five port ring junction is operating at frequencies of 0.64 GHz and 2.42 GHz. The measured result had good agreement with the simulated results for dual frequencies in terms of magnitude and phase.