RF parameters characterization of a flexible Cu-PDMS-Cu patch antenna

This paper presents a newly developed flexible Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-Copper (CU) patch antenna. The circular-shaped antenna consists of a 21.28mm radial size Cu patch embedded on a PDMS square substrate. PDMS has a low loss tangent of 0.004 and a relative permittivity of 2.74 that will enhance...

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Main Authors:	Mohd Ramly, Athirah, Abdul Malek, Norun, Ibrahim, Siti Noorjannah, Zainuddin, Ahmad Anwar
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Language:	English English
Published:	Praise Worthy Prize 2017
Subjects:	TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television TK7800 Electronics. Computer engineering. Computer hardware. Photoelectronic devices
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spelling	iium-597852017-12-06T04:12:31Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/59785/ RF parameters characterization of a flexible Cu-PDMS-Cu patch antenna Mohd Ramly, Athirah Abdul Malek, Norun Ibrahim, Siti Noorjannah Zainuddin, Ahmad Anwar TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television TK7800 Electronics. Computer engineering. Computer hardware. Photoelectronic devices This paper presents a newly developed flexible Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-Copper (CU) patch antenna. The circular-shaped antenna consists of a 21.28mm radial size Cu patch embedded on a PDMS square substrate. PDMS has a low loss tangent of 0.004 and a relative permittivity of 2.74 that will enhance the RF parameters of the flexible antenna. There are three layers of material used to build the antenna. The first and the third layers are made from Cu tape and function as the ground and patch respectively. Meanwhile, the sandwiched layer is the PDMS substrate. However, several limitations of the antenna were observed, including low adhesiveness between layers, which made it impossible to perform metal and dielectric depositions. Thus, a thin layer of PDMS has been built on top of a patch layer to increase the adhesive strength between the copper patch and the PDMS substrate. The paper also discussed the return loss of the antenna with and without sandwich in planar, bending in x-axis and y-axis. The measurements using a vector network analyzer (VNA) demonstrated that the sandwich antenna can resonate at 2.33GHz with a low return loss of 42dB. The work is a proof of the principle that the PDMS substrate can be proposed as a good substrate for antenna in conformal applications. Praise Worthy Prize 2017-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/59785/7/59785-RF%20Parameters%20Characterization%20of%20a%20Flexible.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/59785/8/59785-RF%20parameters%20characterization%20of%20a%20flexible%20Cu-PDMS-Cu%20patch%20antenna_SCOPUS.pdf Mohd Ramly, Athirah and Abdul Malek, Norun and Ibrahim, Siti Noorjannah and Zainuddin, Ahmad Anwar (2017) RF parameters characterization of a flexible Cu-PDMS-Cu patch antenna. International Journal on Communications Antenna and Propagation (IRECAP), 7 (4). pp. 326-333. ISSN 2039-5086 http://www.praiseworthyprize.org/jsm/index.php?journal=irecap&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=20437 10.15866/irecap.v7i4.11838
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spellingShingle	TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television TK7800 Electronics. Computer engineering. Computer hardware. Photoelectronic devices Mohd Ramly, Athirah Abdul Malek, Norun Ibrahim, Siti Noorjannah Zainuddin, Ahmad Anwar RF parameters characterization of a flexible Cu-PDMS-Cu patch antenna
description	This paper presents a newly developed flexible Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-Copper (CU) patch antenna. The circular-shaped antenna consists of a 21.28mm radial size Cu patch embedded on a PDMS square substrate. PDMS has a low loss tangent of 0.004 and a relative permittivity of 2.74 that will enhance the RF parameters of the flexible antenna. There are three layers of material used to build the antenna. The first and the third layers are made from Cu tape and function as the ground and patch respectively. Meanwhile, the sandwiched layer is the PDMS substrate. However, several limitations of the antenna were observed, including low adhesiveness between layers, which made it impossible to perform metal and dielectric depositions. Thus, a thin layer of PDMS has been built on top of a patch layer to increase the adhesive strength between the copper patch and the PDMS substrate. The paper also discussed the return loss of the antenna with and without sandwich in planar, bending in x-axis and y-axis. The measurements using a vector network analyzer (VNA) demonstrated that the sandwich antenna can resonate at 2.33GHz with a low return loss of 42dB. The work is a proof of the principle that the PDMS substrate can be proposed as a good substrate for antenna in conformal applications.
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author	Mohd Ramly, Athirah Abdul Malek, Norun Ibrahim, Siti Noorjannah Zainuddin, Ahmad Anwar
author_facet	Mohd Ramly, Athirah Abdul Malek, Norun Ibrahim, Siti Noorjannah Zainuddin, Ahmad Anwar
author_sort	Mohd Ramly, Athirah
title	RF parameters characterization of a flexible Cu-PDMS-Cu patch antenna
title_short	RF parameters characterization of a flexible Cu-PDMS-Cu patch antenna
title_full	RF parameters characterization of a flexible Cu-PDMS-Cu patch antenna
title_fullStr	RF parameters characterization of a flexible Cu-PDMS-Cu patch antenna
title_full_unstemmed	RF parameters characterization of a flexible Cu-PDMS-Cu patch antenna
title_sort	rf parameters characterization of a flexible cu-pdms-cu patch antenna
publisher	Praise Worthy Prize
publishDate	2017
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RF parameters characterization of a flexible Cu-PDMS-Cu patch antenna

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