Nickel zinc ferrite thick film as substrate overlay for improved performance of microstrip patch antenna

Autor: Hasan, I H, Hamidon, M N, Ismail, A, Ismail, I, Kusaimi, M A M, Azhari, S, Azhari, N A M, Osman, R
Zdroj: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering; June 2018, Vol. 380 Issue: 1 p012004-012004, 1p
Abstrakt: In this paper, nickel zinc ferrite (NZF) nanopowder was mixed with organic vehicle which consists of linseed oil, m-xylene and a-terpineol. Then the mixture was sonicated for 1 hour at 40degC in order to obtain homogenous paste, followed by printing it onto FR4 substrate using the screen printing technique to form the NZF thick film layer before dried at 100degC and later fired at 200degC. A basic square shape patch antenna by using silver paste was printed onto the NZF thick film layer and was compared with another patch antenna which was been printed without the NZF layer. The results showed that the antenna with NZF thick film layer has return loss of -10.97dB, resonant frequency 6.42GHz, bandwidth 3.9 and Q factor of 1.646, which is better compared to the antenna without the layer by 32.81%, 3.22%, 86.60% and 44.69% respectively.
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