Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38276858›Full record

ArticleMicromachines2024

Flexible Symmetric-Defection Antenna with Bending and Thermal Insensitivity for Miniaturized UAV.

Xueli Nan, Tongtong Kang, Zhonghe Zhang, Xin Wang, Jiale Zhang, Yusheng Lei, Libo Gao, Jianli Cui, Hongcheng Xu

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Micromachines, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Flexible Phased Antenna Arrays: A Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Xueli NanSchool of Automation and Software Engineering, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China.
Tongtong KangSchool of Automation and Software Engineering, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China.
Zhonghe ZhangCollege of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518061, China.
Xin WangSchool of Automation and Software Engineering, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7464-3565
Jiale ZhangSchool of Automation and Software Engineering, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China.ORCID 0009-0006-8528-789X
Yusheng LeiPen-Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China.
Libo GaoPen-Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China.
Jianli CuiSchool of Physics and Electronics Engineering, Yuncheng University, Yuncheng 044000, China.
Hongcheng XuSchool of Instrument Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.

Funding

Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities 20720230030National Natural Science Foundation of China 61804090National Natural Science Foundation of China 62274140
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flexible conformal-enabled antennas have great potential for various developable surface-built unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) due to their superior mechanical compliance as well as maintaining excellent electromagnetic features. However, it remains a challenge that the antenna holds bending and thermal insensitivity to negligibly shift resonant frequency during conformal attachment and aerial flight, respectively. Here, we report a flexible symmetric-defection antenna (FSDA) with bending and thermal insensitivity. By engraving a symmetric defection on the reflective ground, the radiated unit attached to the soft polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) makes the antenna resonate at the ISM microwave band (resonant frequency = 2.44 GHz) and conformal with a miniaturized UAV. The antenna is also insensitive to both the bending-conformal attachment (20 mm < r < 70 mm) and thermal radiation (20~100 °C) due to the symmetric peripheral-current field along the defection and the low-change thermal effect of the PDMS, respectively. Therefore, the antenna in a non-bending state almost keeps the same impedance matching and radiation when it is attached to a cylinder-back of a UAV. The flexible antenna with bending and thermal insensitivity will pave the way for more conformal or wrapping applications.

Indexed as

antennabendflexibleinsensitivitythermal

Identifiers

PMID38276858
PMCPMC10818624

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.