Low-Cost Microfluidics-Enabled Tunable Loop Antenna Using Inkjet-Printing Technologies

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作者：

Su, Wenjing ^{[1
]}

Cook, Benjamin S. ^{[1
]}

Tentzeris, Manos M. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Elect & Comp Engn, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA

来源：

2015 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) | 2015年

关键词：

microfluidics; tunable antenna; loop antenna; tunable balun; inkjet printing; additive manufacturing;

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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 low-cost and disposable loop antenna is proposed, which consists of a microfluidics-enabled tunable square loop and a microfluidics-enabled tunable balun to guarantee a similar radiation pattern over a reconfigurable "liquid-controlled" frequency range. By inserting different fluids over partial sections of the loop and the balun, the proposed antenna can achieve a frequency range of 2.28 GHz for water filled channel to 2.45 GHz for empty channel. The proposed antenna is fabricated in a low-cost and non-cleanroom process by integrating inkjet-printing with laser-etching techniques. This antenna can be used as a fluid sensor for biomedical or chemical assay, as well as a tunable antenna for communication applications. The microfluidics-enabled tunable embedded balun can be applied independently as a wideband balun for various communication, sensing and biomonitoring applications.

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