Inkjet-Printed Wideband Antenna on Resin-Coated Paper Substrate for Curved Wireless Devices

Abutarboush, Hattan F.; Farooqui, Muhammad Fahad; Shamim, Atif

doi:10.1109/lawp.2015.2425797

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“…The results show that a good match of measured reflection coefficient is found not only with the simulated results in the ISM band (2.45 GHz) in the flat shape but also after bending conditions. Since there is no heating process involved, the cracks cannot be observed in the printed layer after bending the antenna as reported in [8]. The measured conductivity of the printed layer is found to be around 1.11 × 10 7 S/m (14.7% of the conductivity of the bulk silver) with single 300 nm layer thickness and 0.3 Ω/sq sheet resistance.…”

Section: Fabrication and Results Of A Cpw-fed Z-shaped Antennamentioning

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“…Moreover, the commonly used inkjet printer (e.g., DMP 2800 series) is too expensive to make this type of the fabrication process commercially viable. In [6][7][8][9][10], antennas for wearable and conformal applications are fabricated using an inkjet printer on flexible substrates like Kapton, resin-coated paper, and glossy paper achieving reasonable conductivity up to 1e10 7 S/m, but, unfortunately, it involves a long sintering process at higher temperature, that is, 150°C for several hours. Although the conventional office printer has also been used for printing the radiating part of the antenna on glossy paper by using AgNP ink to reduce the fabrication cost of the antenna, it requires long annealing time to exhibit reasonable conductivity for the antenna applications [11].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Low-Cost Printed Flexible Antenna by Using an Office Printer for Conformal Applications

Paracha

Rahim

Chattha

et al. 2018

International Journal of Antennas and Propagation

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A low-cost inkjet printing method for antenna fabrication on a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate is presented in this paper. An office inkjet printer is used to have desired patterns of silver nanoparticle ink on the PET substrate without any postprocessing. Silver nanoparticle ink cures instantly as soon as it is ejected from the printer on a chemically treated PET substrate. The thickness of the silver nanoparticle layer was measured to be 300 nm with a sheet resistance of as low as 0.3 Ω/sq and a conductivity around 1.11 × 10 7 S/m with single layer deposition. A coplanar waveguide-(CPW-) fed Z-shape planar antenna on the PET substrate achieved the measured radiation efficiency of 62% and the IEEE gain of 1.44 dBi at 2.45 GHz. The printed antenna is also tested in bending conditions to ascertain its performance for the Internet of things (IoT) conformal applications for the future 5G network.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Low-Cost Printed Flexible Antenna by Using an Office Printer for Conformal Applications

Paracha

Rahim

Chattha

et al. 2018

International Journal of Antennas and Propagation

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“…A silver nanoparticle based ink from Sigma-Aldrich has been used. The detailed description of the printing and the alignment process can be found in [15][16]. In our fabrication of the antenna, we first print the structure of the antenna using metal nanoparticles ink on a Kodak paper and then place it inside an oven for 2 hours to heat the metal nanoparticles beyond the melting temperature.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The SMA, PIN diodes, resistors and capacitance are then mounted on the antenna using low-temperature solder pastes and epoxies [16]. The antenna proposed in this paper cannot be flexible but it can be curved because any attempt to bend the antenna after the sintering process cracks in the printed structure will be visible as discussed in details in [16]. If the antenna is to be designed for curved surface, the procedure in [16] should be followed.…”

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A Reconfigurable Inkjet-Printed Antenna on Paper Substrate for Wireless Applications

Abutarboush

Shamim

2018

Antennas Wirel. Propag. Lett.

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An inkjet printed reconfigurable multiband antenna printed on a low cost commercial photo paper substrate using two PIN diodes is proposed for the first time. A main radiator is designed to operate at 3.4 GHz band whereas L-shaped and U-shaped radiating elements are designed to operate at 1.9 and 2.4 GHz, respectively. The antenna has a size of 30 x 40 x 0.44 mm 3 and can cover most of the mobile and wireless bands between 1.5 to 4 GHz. A prototype of the proposed antenna is fabricated and measured. Measured and simulated results of S11, radiation pattern, gain and efficiency are in good agreement. Measured results show that the antenna has a gain and efficiency of 2 dBi and 50%, respectively. A parametric study is proposed as a guidance to design the antenna for operating in other bands between 1.5GHz to 4GHz.

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“…The performance analysis in deformed and bent configurations has been carried out. An inkjet printed triple band antenna realized on resin coated paper substrate with overall dimensions of 35 × 40 mm 2 is proposed in [16]. The work in [17] presents a proximity coupled-fed microstrip flexible antenna with overall geometry of 40 × 40 mm 2 and dual band operation.…”

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A Flexible and Compact Semicircular Antenna for Multiple Wireless Communication Applications

Akhtar¹,

Naqvi²,

Arshad³

et al. 2018

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This work presents a compact, quad-band planar antenna intended for assimilation into flexible and conformal devices. The CPW-fed semicircular shaped prototype with rake-shaped slots is designed, realized and characterized experimentally. The frequency bands covered by the proposed radiator are centered at 2.5, 3.7, 5.5 and 8 GHz with measured impedance bandwidths of 16%, 13.5%, 11.8% and 14.63%, respectively. The proposed antenna is thus enabled to support WLAN, ISM, Bluetooth, WiMAX, LTE and X-band applications. The antenna exhibits a significant gain. The radiation characteristics of the proposed radiator are measured in concave and convex bent shapes at various radii to analyze its flexibility. Performance of the antenna remains almost unaffected in the bent situation. Measurements demonstrate good coherence with simulations. The compactness and good performance of the design both in bent and unbent conditions proves it to be the better contender for future multiband conformal wireless applications.

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Inkjet-Printed Wideband Antenna on Resin-Coated Paper Substrate for Curved Wireless Devices

Cited by 38 publications

References 19 publications

Low-Cost Printed Flexible Antenna by Using an Office Printer for Conformal Applications

Low-Cost Printed Flexible Antenna by Using an Office Printer for Conformal Applications

A Reconfigurable Inkjet-Printed Antenna on Paper Substrate for Wireless Applications

A Flexible and Compact Semicircular Antenna for Multiple Wireless Communication Applications

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