Foldable and stretchable liquid metal planar inverted cone antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3765-3771

  Cheng, Shi ^a   Wu, Zhigang ^a   Hallbjörner, Paul ^a,b   Hjort, Klas ^a   Rydberg, Anders ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SP TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Liquid alloy; Planar inverted cone antenna (PICA); Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS); Stretchable electronics; Ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BODYWORN ANTENNAS; CONE ANTENNAS; ELASTIC DIELECTRICS; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; HARSH ENVIRONMENT; LIQUID ALLOY; MECHANICAL FLEXIBILITY; PERMANENT DAMAGE; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; RADIATION CHARACTERISTICS; RADIATION EFFICIENCY; RETURN LOSS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STRETCHABLE ELECTRONICS; ULTRAWIDEBAND APPLICATIONS;

ALLOYS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; LIQUID METALS; MICROCHANNELS; SILICONES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 72649098369     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2024560     Document Type: Article

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