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

Paracha, Kashif Nisar; Rahim, S. K. A.; Chattha, Hassan Tariq; Alja’afreh, Saqer S.; Rehman, Sabih ur; Lo, Yew Chiong

doi:10.1155/2018/3241581

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“…In this case, thin-film deposition was obtained by evaporating a source material in a vacuum allowing vapor particles to travel to the substrate covered with a mask outlining the desired structure. In the work presented in [10], a low-cost inkjet printing method for antenna fabrication on a poly-ethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate is utilized. Their proposed co-planar waveguide (CPW) fed Z-shape antenna that was operating at 2.45 GHz.…”

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A Printed Wearable Dual-Band Antenna for Wireless Power Transfer

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Noghanian

2019

Sensors

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In this work, a dual-band printed planar antenna, operating at two ultra-high frequency bands (2.5 GHz/4.5 GHz), is proposed for wireless power transfer for wearable applications. The receiving antenna is printed on a Kapton polyimide-based flexible substrate, and the transmitting antenna is on FR-4 substrate. The receiver antenna occupies 2.1 cm 2 area. Antennas were simulated using ANSYS HFSS software and the simulation results are compared with the measurement results.

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A Printed Wearable Dual-Band Antenna for Wireless Power Transfer

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Noghanian

2019

Sensors

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“…A miniaturized fully inkjet-printed flexible multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna for ultrawideband (UWB) application was proposed on Kapton polyimide substrate using a Dimatix DMP 2800 printer [ 59 ]. Using Dimatix DMP 2831 printer, a flexible, wearable, and reversibly deformable CPW fed antenna was designed on PET substrate using silver nanoparticles [ 94 ]. A high-gain, multidirector Yagi-Uda antennas for use within the 2.45-GHz ISM band were realized using silver and dielectric ink on LCP substrate using the same printer [ 95 ].…”

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Flexible Antennas: A Review

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The field of flexible antennas is witnessing an exponential growth due to the demand for wearable devices, Internet of Things (IoT) framework, point of care devices, personalized medicine platform, 5G technology, wireless sensor networks, and communication devices with a smaller form factor to name a few. The choice of non-rigid antennas is application specific and depends on the type of substrate, materials used, processing techniques, antenna performance, and the surrounding environment. There are numerous design innovations, new materials and material properties, intriguing fabrication methods, and niche applications. This review article focuses on the need for flexible antennas, materials, and processes used for fabricating the antennas, various material properties influencing antenna performance, and specific biomedical applications accompanied by the design considerations. After a comprehensive treatment of the above-mentioned topics, the article will focus on inherent challenges and future prospects of flexible antennas. Finally, an insight into the application of flexible antenna on future wireless solutions is discussed.

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“…Chemical curing of the AgNP ink after the printed antenna fabrication requires special treatment of the substrate surface so that nanoparticles(NPs) could instantly form the conduction paths at room temperature [65]. Meanwhile, in [66], this printing method is implemented for fabricating wearable antennas. A Z-shape antenna has been printed for operation in the ISM band (2.45 GHz) on a low-cost pre-treated PET substrate.…”

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Wearable Antennas: A Review of Materials, Structures, and Innovative Features for Autonomous Communication and Sensing

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Wearable antennas have gained much attention in recent years due to their attractive features and possibilities in enabling lightweight, flexible, low cost, and portable wireless communication and sensing. Such antennas need to be conformal when used on different parts of the human body, thus need to be implemented using flexible materials and designed in a low profile structure. Ultimately, these antennas need to be capable of operating with minimum degradation in proximity to the human body. Such requirements render the design of wearable antennas challenging, especially when considering aspects such as their size compactness, effects of structural deformation and coupling to the body, and fabrication complexity and accuracy. Despite slight variations in severity according to applications, most of these issues exist in the context of body-worn implementation. This review aims to present different challenges and issues in designing wearable antennas, their material selection, and fabrication techniques. More importantly, recent innovative methods in back radiations reduction techniques, circular polarization (CP) generation methods, dual polarization techniques, and providing additional robustness against environmental effects are first presented. This is followed by a discussion of innovative features and their respective methods in alleviating these issues recently proposed by the scientific community researching in this field. INDEX TERMSWearable devices, Internet of Things (IoT), wearable antennas, flexible, reconfigurable antennas, energy harvesting for wearable devices, specific absorption rate (SAR).

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

Cited by 37 publications

References 16 publications

A Printed Wearable Dual-Band Antenna for Wireless Power Transfer

A Printed Wearable Dual-Band Antenna for Wireless Power Transfer

Flexible Antennas: A Review

Wearable Antennas: A Review of Materials, Structures, and Innovative Features for Autonomous Communication and Sensing

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