Conformal ink-jet printed C-band phased-array antenna incorporating carbon nanotube field-effect transistor based reconfigurable true-time delay lines

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 179-184

  Chen, Maggie Yihong ^a   Pham, Daniel ^b   Subbaraman, Harish ^c   Lu, Xuejun ^d   Chen, Ray T ^b  

^a Texas State University   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c Omega Optics Inc   (United States)

^d University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube (CNT); conformal antennas; field effect transistor (FET) switches; ink jet printing; phased array antennas (PAAs)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE COMPONENTS; BEAM-STEERING; CARBON NANOTUBE FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS; CARBON-NANOTUBE-BASED FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS; CONFORMAL ANTENNAS; FET SWITCHES; FLEXIBLE PRINTED CIRCUIT; HIGH-SPEED; INK-JET; LITHOGRAPHY PROCESS; MICROSTRIP TRANSMISSION LINES; ON-OFF RATIO; PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; POLYIMIDE FILM; PRINTING PROCESS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RF SIGNAL; RF-POWER; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SOURCE-DRAIN; TRUE TIME DELAY;

ANTENNAS; BEAMFORMING; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; DELAY CIRCUITS; DRAIN CURRENT; LITHOGRAPHY; MESFET DEVICES; POLYIMIDES; POLYMERIC FILMS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; TIME DELAY; TIME SWITCHES; WAVES;

INK JET PRINTING;

EID: 84855458904     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2173209     Document Type: Article

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