A Compact Kapton-Based Inkjet-Printed Multiband Antenna for Flexible Wireless Devices

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 14, Issue , 2015, Pages 1802-1805

  Ahmed, Sana ^a   Tahir, Farooq A ^a   Shamim, A ^b   Cheema, Hammad M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY NUST   (Pakistan)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Flexible antennas; inkjet printing; Kapton; multiband antennas; wireless applications

Indexed keywords

COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FREQUENCY BANDS; INK JET PRINTING; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OMNIDIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS; POLYIMIDES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CO PLANAR WAVEGUIDE FEED (CPW); FLEXIBLE ANTENNAS; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; KAPTON; MULTIBAND ANTENNAS; OMNIDIRECTIONAL RADIATION PATTERN; WIDE FREQUENCY BANDS; WIRELESS APPLICATION;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 84970006690     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2015.2424681     Document Type: Article

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