TY - GEN
T1 - Silver Nanowire based Flexible, Transparent, Wideband Antenna for 5G Band Application
AU - Li, Weiwei
AU - Meredov, Azat
AU - Shamim, Atif
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
PY - 2019/10/31
Y1 - 2019/10/31
N2 - A transparent, flexible antenna can be utilized on car windows, solar cells, and similar applications to make use of the existing space for communication. In this work, a flexible, transparent, and wideband mm-wave monopole antenna has been designed, fabricated and tested. The proposed antennas have been realized by inkjet printing of custom made silver nanowire (Ag NW) ink. The antenna shows ultra-wide bandwidth up to 26 GHz (from 18 GHz to 44 GHz), high radiation efficiency of 55% and a maximum gain of 1.45 dBi. In addition, more than 90% transparency has been obtained due to the high transparency of the Ag NW and the slot structure. The excellent performance enables the proposed antenna suitable for various applications.
AB - A transparent, flexible antenna can be utilized on car windows, solar cells, and similar applications to make use of the existing space for communication. In this work, a flexible, transparent, and wideband mm-wave monopole antenna has been designed, fabricated and tested. The proposed antennas have been realized by inkjet printing of custom made silver nanowire (Ag NW) ink. The antenna shows ultra-wide bandwidth up to 26 GHz (from 18 GHz to 44 GHz), high radiation efficiency of 55% and a maximum gain of 1.45 dBi. In addition, more than 90% transparency has been obtained due to the high transparency of the Ag NW and the slot structure. The excellent performance enables the proposed antenna suitable for various applications.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/660372
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8888371/
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85075236031&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/APUSNCURSINRSM.2019.8888371
DO - 10.1109/APUSNCURSINRSM.2019.8888371
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781728106922
SP - 275
EP - 276
BT - 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting
PB - IEEE
ER -