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Low-cost printed flexible antenna by using an office printer for conformal applications

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 in...

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Main Authors: Paracha, K. N., Rahim, S. K. A., Chattha, H. T., Aljaafreh, S. S., Ur Rehman, S., Lo, Y. C.
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Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2018
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TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/79950/1/KashifNisarParacha2018_LowCostPrintedFlexibleAntenna.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/79950/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/3241581
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spelling my.utm.799502019-01-28T07:02:23Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/79950/ Low-cost printed flexible antenna by using an office printer for conformal applications Paracha, K. N. Rahim, S. K. A. Chattha, H. T. Aljaafreh, S. S. Ur Rehman, S. Lo, Y. C. TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering 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 300nm with a sheet resistance of as low as 0.3Ω/sq and a conductivity around 1.11 × 107 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. Hindawi Limited 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/79950/1/KashifNisarParacha2018_LowCostPrintedFlexibleAntenna.pdf Paracha, K. N. and Rahim, S. K. A. and Chattha, H. T. and Aljaafreh, S. S. and Ur Rehman, S. and Lo, Y. C. (2018) Low-cost printed flexible antenna by using an office printer for conformal applications. International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2018 (324158). ISSN 1687-5869 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/3241581 DOI:10.1155/2018/3241581
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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language English
topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Paracha, K. N.
Rahim, S. K. A.
Chattha, H. T.
Aljaafreh, S. S.
Ur Rehman, S.
Lo, Y. C.
Low-cost printed flexible antenna by using an office printer for conformal applications
description 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 300nm with a sheet resistance of as low as 0.3Ω/sq and a conductivity around 1.11 × 107 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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author Paracha, K. N.
Rahim, S. K. A.
Chattha, H. T.
Aljaafreh, S. S.
Ur Rehman, S.
Lo, Y. C.
author_facet Paracha, K. N.
Rahim, S. K. A.
Chattha, H. T.
Aljaafreh, S. S.
Ur Rehman, S.
Lo, Y. C.
author_sort Paracha, K. N.
title Low-cost printed flexible antenna by using an office printer for conformal applications
title_short Low-cost printed flexible antenna by using an office printer for conformal applications
title_full Low-cost printed flexible antenna by using an office printer for conformal applications
title_fullStr Low-cost printed flexible antenna by using an office printer for conformal applications
title_full_unstemmed Low-cost printed flexible antenna by using an office printer for conformal applications
title_sort low-cost printed flexible antenna by using an office printer for conformal applications
publisher Hindawi Limited
publishDate 2018
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/79950/1/KashifNisarParacha2018_LowCostPrintedFlexibleAntenna.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/79950/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/3241581
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