Polymer-based 2.4 GHz Patch Antenna
| Autor: | Koen Mouthaan, Denis Le Goff, Ghislain Riondet, Yuchan Song |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Patch antenna
Materials science Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 020206 networking & telecommunications 02 engineering and technology 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Silicone rubber Cladding (fiber optics) Radiation pattern Condensed Matter::Soft Condensed Matter chemistry.chemical_compound Silicone chemistry 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Reference antenna Composite material 0210 nano-technology RTV silicone Computer Science::Information Theory Ground plane |
| Zdroj: | 2020 International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT). |
| DOI: | 10.1109/iwat48004.2020.1570617854 |
| Popis: | A highly flexible and conformable polymer-based patch antenna, based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) room temperature vulcanized silicone (RTV) silicone rubber substrate combined with a stretchable silver conductor, is presented. The measured performance of the antenna is compared with a reference antenna, which uses the same RTV silicone rubber as substrate and polyimide with copper cladding for the top layer and the ground plane. The measured gain of the polymer-based antenna is $\sim$ 4 dB lower compared to the reference antenna. This is also predicted by simulations and is due to the lower conductivity of the conductive polymer compared to copper in the reference antenna. The radiation pattern and gain of the polymer-based antenna remain mostly unaffected when the antenna is conformed to cylindrical surfaces of various radiuses. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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