A compact polyimide-based UWB antenna for flexible electronics

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 564-567

  Khaleel, Haider R ^a   Al Rizzo, Hussain M ^a   Rucker, Daniel G ^a   Mohan, Seshadri ^a  

^a University of Arkansas at Little Rock ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Coplanar waveguide (CPW); flexible electronics; polyimide; ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BENDING EFFECT; CPW-FED; FAR FIELD RADIATION PATTERNS; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES; GHZ FREQUENCIES; INDUSTRIAL , SCIENTIFIC , MEDICAL BANDS; KAPTON POLYIMIDE; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; SIMULATED MODEL; TAPERED COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE; ULTRA-WIDEBAND ANTENNAS; UWB ANTENNA;

ANTENNAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; DEGRADATION; DESIGN; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); POLYIMIDES;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 84861927497     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2012.2199956     Document Type: Article

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