Progress in conductive polymer antennas based on free-standing polypyrrole and PEDOT: PSS
| Autor: | Christophe Fumeaux, Pejman Talemi, Roderick Shepherd, Benjamin Chivers, Shengjian Jammy Chen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Conductive polymer
Materials science business.industry 020206 networking & telecommunications 02 engineering and technology 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Polypyrrole Conductor chemistry.chemical_compound PEDOT:PSS chemistry Wearable antennas 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Optoelectronics Antenna (radio) 0210 nano-technology business Microwave |
| Zdroj: | 2016 17th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM). |
| DOI: | 10.1109/antem.2016.7550191 |
| Popis: | In this paper, various realizations of microwave antennas based on free-standing conductive polymers including polypyrrole (PPy) and PEDOT:PSS (PEDOT) are reviewed in regard to two significant aspects: improvement of their efficiency and exploitation of their mechanical flexibility for antenna designs. On the one hand, with strategies such as simple chemical material treatments, deployment of non-resonant antenna structure and multilayer configurations, very high antenna efficiencies can be achieved. On the other hand, through the utilization of the conductive polymers and flexible, robust and low-loss substrates, reproducible antenna mechanical conformability can be achieved. All these facts suggest that conductive polymers are promising as conductor materials for flexible and wearable antenna designs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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