TY - GEN
T1 - A fully printed ferrite nano-particle ink based tunable antenna
AU - Ghaffar, Farhan A.
AU - Vaseem, Mohammad
AU - Shamim, Atif
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
PY - 2016/11/2
Y1 - 2016/11/2
N2 - Inkjet printing or printing in general has emerged as a very attractive method for the fabrication of low cost and large size electronic systems. However, most of the printed designs rely on nano-particle based metallic inks which are printed on conventional microwave substrates. In order to have a fully printed fabrication process, the substrate also need to be printed. In this paper, a fully printed multi-layer process utilizing custom Fe2O3 based magnetic ink and a silver organic complex (SOC) ink is demonstrated for tunable antennas applications. The ink has been characterized for high frequency and magnetostatic properties. Finally as a proof of concept, a microstrip patch antenna is realized using the proposed fabrication technique which shows a tuning range of 12.5 %.
AB - Inkjet printing or printing in general has emerged as a very attractive method for the fabrication of low cost and large size electronic systems. However, most of the printed designs rely on nano-particle based metallic inks which are printed on conventional microwave substrates. In order to have a fully printed fabrication process, the substrate also need to be printed. In this paper, a fully printed multi-layer process utilizing custom Fe2O3 based magnetic ink and a silver organic complex (SOC) ink is demonstrated for tunable antennas applications. The ink has been characterized for high frequency and magnetostatic properties. Finally as a proof of concept, a microstrip patch antenna is realized using the proposed fabrication technique which shows a tuning range of 12.5 %.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/622365
UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7696237/
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84997108043&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/APS.2016.7696237
DO - 10.1109/APS.2016.7696237
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781509028863
SP - 1059
EP - 1060
BT - 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI)
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
ER -