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This paper presents the detailed design, analysis and measurements of new configuration of quad-band antenna. The antenna is designed using a new uni-planar complementary split ring resonator (UP-CSRR) unit cell. The UP-CSRR unit cell is etched in the top plane of a microstrip patch which reduces the back radiation and enhances the antenna efficiency. The structure has advantage of the presence of complete ground plane that supports a typical broadside radiation. The designed antenna is resonating at 1.9, 3.3, 3.9 and 4.2 GHz with reflection coefficient lower than –10 dB. Moreover, the antenna has a patch size of 3.5 cm × 4 cm which is a consequence of the new IP-CSRR configuration smaller size compared to conventional CSRR. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A wideband, wide angle metamaterial Hilbert curve array terahertz absorbing screen is reported. The absorber consists of array of an Aluminum first order Hilbert curve array over a copper ground plane separated by dielectric spacer. 100% fractional bandwidth (-3dB absorption bandwidth) for normal incidence and more than 90% in case of oblique incidence of 45° and 60° for both TE and TM polarizations have been verified numerically. The operating bandwidth of the structure proposed here is several times of those reported to date. Peak absorption is 98% for normal incidence and more than 86% for 60° angle of incidence for either polarization. Furthermore, effects of variations in Hilbert curve dimensions, spacer thickness, spacer permittivity and ground plane conductivity are also investigated. The structure is shown to have high tolerance to variations in the aforementioned parameters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, a novel compact and tunable impedance transmission line transformer is presented for the first time. The transformer is designed using a left handed coplanar waveguide transmission line on a ferrite substrate. Based on the dispersive properties of the ferrite medium, the theoretical study of the transformer has been carried out using its equivalent circuit analysis and the composite right / left handed transmission line theory. The theoretical study was verified through full wave electromagnetic numerical simulations. The results show that the transformer matches a 25 Ω load to a 50 Ω line with tunability from 2.55 GHz to 3.2 GHz. The return loss at center frequency is better than 20 dB with insertion loss better than -1 dB. The transformer has a very compact size with dimensions of 4.25 × 21 mm, showing approximately 64% reduction in size in comparison with a conventional right-handed transformer within the same operating frequency band. Moreover, the proposed coplanar waveguide transformer configuration has smaller demagnetization factor and hence it requires smaller DC magnetic bias values compared to microstrip configuration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Printed electronics offer a breakthrough in the penetration of information technology into everyday life. The possibility of printing electronic circuits will further promote the spread of the Internet of Things applications. Inks based on graphene have a chance to dominate this technology, as they potentially can be low cost and applied directly on materials like textile and paper. Here we report the environmentally sustainable route of production of graphene ink suitable for screen-printing technology. The use of non-toxic solvent Dihydrolevoglucosenone (Cyrene) significantly speeds up and reduces the cost of the liquid phase exfoliation of graphite. Printing with our ink results in very high conductivity (7.13 × 104 S m−1) devices, which allows us to produce wireless connectivity antenna operational from MHz to tens of GHz, which can be used for wireless data communication and energy harvesting, which brings us very close to the ubiquitous use of printed graphene technology for such applications. Printed conductive inks show promise for future electronic device applications. Here, the authors report synthesis of graphene inks with conductivity of 7.13 × 10^4 S/m by Cyrene assisted liquid phase exfoliation, and their applications in data communication and RF energy harvesting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, we have designed, fabricated and experimentally characterized a printed graphene nano-flakes enabled flexible and conformable wideband radar absorber. The absorber covers both X (8-12 GHz) and Ku (12-18 GHz) bands and is printed on flexible substrate using graphene nano-flakes conductive ink through stencil printing method. The measured results show that an effective absorption (above 90%) bandwidth spans from 10.4 GHz to 19.7 GHz, namely a 62% fraction bandwidth, with only 2 mm thickness. The flexibility of the printed graphene nano-flakes enables the absorber conformably bending and attaching to a metal cylinder. The radar cross section (RCS) of the cylinder with and without absorber attachment has been compared and excellent absorption has been obtained. Only 3.6% bandwidth reduction has been observed comparing to that of un-bended absorber. This work has demonstrated unambiguously that printed graphene can provide flexible and conformable wideband radar absorption, which extends the graphene's application to practical RCS reductions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]