TY - GEN
T1 - Study of electrical and mechanical characteristics of inkjet-printed patch antenna under uniaxial and biaxial bending
AU - Zhou, Yi
AU - Sivapurapu, Sridhar
AU - Chen, Rui
AU - Aslani Amoli, Nahid
AU - Bellaredj, Mohamed
AU - Swaminathan, Madhavan
AU - Sitaraman, Suresh K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - This paper discusses the electrical and mechanical characterization of an inkjet-printed patch antenna under uniaxial and biaxial bending. A 30 mm × 40 mm patch antenna design with a truncated copper ground plane was designed and fabricated by inkjet printing on a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate. The fabricated antenna samples were then fixtured on cylindrical polycarbonate mandrels as well as on 3D printed saddle-like structures using polylactic acid (PLA). S11 was measured in both bent and flat configurations, and a shift in resonant frequency was observed. A maximum decrease of about 12.6% in resonant frequency under cylindrical bending was observed, and this decrease can be attributed to the decrease in conductance in the printed components due to small radius of some of the mandrels and due to sequential repetitive bending. The change in resonant frequency under biaxial saddle-like bending was small due to larger radii of the saddle-like surfaces and due to one-time bending. Electrical simulations in ANSYSTM HFSS were carried out to determine S11 of the patch antenna under flat configuration and was compared favorably against experimental data. Mechanical finite-element models in ANSYSTM Workbench were carried out to determine the strain distribution under both uniaxial and biaxial bending. A maximum strain of 0.0169 under uniaxial bending and 0.0029 under biaxial bending was observed.
AB - This paper discusses the electrical and mechanical characterization of an inkjet-printed patch antenna under uniaxial and biaxial bending. A 30 mm × 40 mm patch antenna design with a truncated copper ground plane was designed and fabricated by inkjet printing on a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate. The fabricated antenna samples were then fixtured on cylindrical polycarbonate mandrels as well as on 3D printed saddle-like structures using polylactic acid (PLA). S11 was measured in both bent and flat configurations, and a shift in resonant frequency was observed. A maximum decrease of about 12.6% in resonant frequency under cylindrical bending was observed, and this decrease can be attributed to the decrease in conductance in the printed components due to small radius of some of the mandrels and due to sequential repetitive bending. The change in resonant frequency under biaxial saddle-like bending was small due to larger radii of the saddle-like surfaces and due to one-time bending. Electrical simulations in ANSYSTM HFSS were carried out to determine S11 of the patch antenna under flat configuration and was compared favorably against experimental data. Mechanical finite-element models in ANSYSTM Workbench were carried out to determine the strain distribution under both uniaxial and biaxial bending. A maximum strain of 0.0169 under uniaxial bending and 0.0029 under biaxial bending was observed.
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U2 - 10.1109/ECTC.2019.00298
DO - 10.1109/ECTC.2019.00298
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85072280663
T3 - Proceedings - Electronic Components and Technology Conference
SP - 1939
EP - 1945
BT - Proceedings - IEEE 69th Electronic Components and Technology Conference, ECTC 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 69th IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference, ECTC 2019
Y2 - 28 May 2019 through 31 May 2019
ER -