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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Cost-Driven Design of Printed Wideband Antennas with Reduced Silver Ink Consumption for the Internet of Things.

Nicolas Claus, Jo Verhaevert, Hendrik Rogier

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Nicolas ClausDepartment of Information Technology, Ghent University-imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-7478-6243
Jo VerhaevertDepartment of Information Technology, Ghent University-imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-4003-0098
Hendrik RogierDepartment of Information Technology, Ghent University-imec, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-8139-2736

Funding

Strategic Initiative Materials in Flanders HBC.2017.0610
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) accelerates the need for compact, lightweight and low-cost antennas combining wideband operation with a high integration potential. Although screen printing is excellently suited for manufacturing conformal antennas on a flexible substrate, its application is typically limited due to the expensive nature of conductive inks. This paper investigates how the production cost of a flexible coplanar waveguide (CPW)-fed planar monopole antenna can be reduced by exploiting a mesh-based method for limiting ink consumption. Prototypes with mesh grids of different line widths and densities were screen-printed on a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) foil using silver-based nanoparticle ink. Smaller line widths decrease antenna gain and efficiency, while denser mesh grids better approximate unmeshed antenna behavior, albeit at the expense of greater ink consumption. A meshed prototype of 34.76×58.03mm with almost 80% ink reduction compared to an unmeshed counterpart is presented. It is capable of providing wideband coverage in the IMT/LTE-1/n1 (1.92-2.17 GHz), LTE-40/n40 (2.3-2.4 GHz), 2.45 GHz ISM (2.4-2.4835 GHz), IMT-E/LTE-7/n7 (2.5-2.69 GHz), and n78 5G (3.3-3.8 GHz) frequency bands. It exhibits a peak radiation efficiency above 90% and a metallized surface area of 2.46 cm

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5Gflexible antennaink reductionInternet of Things (IoT)meshed antennananoparticle silver inkprinted antennascreen printingwideband antenna

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PMID36298283
PMCPMC9609706

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