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Graphene-based materials for microstrip patch antenna

Microstrip patch antennas are becoming increasingly relevant because of their advantages such as light weight, low costs, and ease of fabrication. To enhance the performance of an antenna, graphene was included into the fabrication of the microstrip patch antenna. Because of its numerous excellent c...

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Main Authors: Nur I. Z., Azman, Muhammad K., Othman, Nur A. A., Zaini, Mohamad Ashry, Jusoh
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Published: Electromagnetics Academy 2022
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TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/37869/1/Graphene-Based%20Materials%20for%20Microstrip%20Patch%20Antenna_FULL.pdf
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https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERC22090505
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spelling my.ump.umpir.378692023-06-27T01:26:21Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/37869/ Graphene-based materials for microstrip patch antenna Nur I. Z., Azman Muhammad K., Othman Nur A. A., Zaini Mohamad Ashry, Jusoh TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Microstrip patch antennas are becoming increasingly relevant because of their advantages such as light weight, low costs, and ease of fabrication. To enhance the performance of an antenna, graphene was included into the fabrication of the microstrip patch antenna. Because of its numerous excellent characteristics, graphene has gained attention in recent years as a leading material. In this research, a microstrip patch antenna based on graphene was fabricated and tested at 5 GHz. The fabrication started with the production of graphene paste and was screen printed onto RT duroid 5880 substrates. To verify the binding between the graphene paste and the substrate, an adhesion test was performed on the finished graphene-based patch antenna using the Scotch tape method. The performance of fabricated antenna was measured using vector network analyzer (VNA) which includes return loss and bandwidth. The findings of the measurements were compared with the simulation results that were generated by the High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS). The return loss of the graphene-based antenna was measured to be -17.6314 dB, which is a little bit lower than the simulated value of -18.0597 dB that was generated by the HFSS software. The calculated bandwidth for simulated and fabricated graphene-based patch antenna were found at 156 MHz and 297.4 MHz, respectively. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that the return loss result indicates that the fabricated graphene-based patch antenna agrees well with the simulated patch antenna, although the fabricated patch antenna has a greater bandwidth than the simulated antenna. Electromagnetics Academy 2022-11 Article PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/37869/1/Graphene-Based%20Materials%20for%20Microstrip%20Patch%20Antenna_FULL.pdf Nur I. Z., Azman and Muhammad K., Othman and Nur A. A., Zaini and Mohamad Ashry, Jusoh (2022) Graphene-based materials for microstrip patch antenna. Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, 126. pp. 207-216. ISSN 1937-8718 https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERC22090505 https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERC22090505
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topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
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Nur I. Z., Azman
Muhammad K., Othman
Nur A. A., Zaini
Mohamad Ashry, Jusoh
Graphene-based materials for microstrip patch antenna
description Microstrip patch antennas are becoming increasingly relevant because of their advantages such as light weight, low costs, and ease of fabrication. To enhance the performance of an antenna, graphene was included into the fabrication of the microstrip patch antenna. Because of its numerous excellent characteristics, graphene has gained attention in recent years as a leading material. In this research, a microstrip patch antenna based on graphene was fabricated and tested at 5 GHz. The fabrication started with the production of graphene paste and was screen printed onto RT duroid 5880 substrates. To verify the binding between the graphene paste and the substrate, an adhesion test was performed on the finished graphene-based patch antenna using the Scotch tape method. The performance of fabricated antenna was measured using vector network analyzer (VNA) which includes return loss and bandwidth. The findings of the measurements were compared with the simulation results that were generated by the High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS). The return loss of the graphene-based antenna was measured to be -17.6314 dB, which is a little bit lower than the simulated value of -18.0597 dB that was generated by the HFSS software. The calculated bandwidth for simulated and fabricated graphene-based patch antenna were found at 156 MHz and 297.4 MHz, respectively. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that the return loss result indicates that the fabricated graphene-based patch antenna agrees well with the simulated patch antenna, although the fabricated patch antenna has a greater bandwidth than the simulated antenna.
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author Nur I. Z., Azman
Muhammad K., Othman
Nur A. A., Zaini
Mohamad Ashry, Jusoh
author_facet Nur I. Z., Azman
Muhammad K., Othman
Nur A. A., Zaini
Mohamad Ashry, Jusoh
author_sort Nur I. Z., Azman
title Graphene-based materials for microstrip patch antenna
title_short Graphene-based materials for microstrip patch antenna
title_full Graphene-based materials for microstrip patch antenna
title_fullStr Graphene-based materials for microstrip patch antenna
title_full_unstemmed Graphene-based materials for microstrip patch antenna
title_sort graphene-based materials for microstrip patch antenna
publisher Electromagnetics Academy
publishDate 2022
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/37869/1/Graphene-Based%20Materials%20for%20Microstrip%20Patch%20Antenna_FULL.pdf
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https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERC22090505
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