Inkjet Printing of Novel Wideband and High Gain Antennas on Low-Cost Paper Substrate

被引：139

作者：

Cook, Benjamin S. ^{[1
]}

Shamim, Atif ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] King Abdullahs Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Elect Engn, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

来源：

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION | 2012年 / 60卷 / 09期

关键词：

Inkjet printing; low-cost electronics; ultrawideband (UWB) antennas;

D O I：

10.1109/TAP.2012.2207079

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

A complete characterization of the inkjet printing process using metallic nanoparticle inks on a paper substrate for microwave frequencies up to 12.5 GHz as well as its application to low-cost, high gain and wideband antenna design are demonstrated in this work. Laser and heat sintering of metallic nanoparticles are compared on paper substrate for the first time which demonstrate immense cost and time benefits of laser sintering. The antennas fabricated using the characterized process include a Vivaldi for the UWB band which exhibits a significantly higher gain of up to 8 dBi as compared to the currently published inkjet printed antennas, and a novel slow-wave log periodic dipole array which employs a new miniaturization technique to show 20% width reduction.

引用

页码：4148 / 4156

页数：9

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