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Frequency tunable liquid metal on paper microstrip patch antenna
- Source :
- AIP Advances. 13:035011
- Publication Year :
- 2023
- Publisher :
- AIP Publishing, 2023.
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Abstract
- We report a liquid metal microstrip antenna on a printing paper whose resonant frequency was tunable by folding the paper. The gallium-based alloy was used as liquid metal, which is instantly oxidized in ambient air. The oxidized liquid metal is easily wettable on printing paper surfaces, while it is non-wettable on laser-printed toner surfaces. An antenna with a 3 mm wide and 39 mm long copper-liquid metal overlapped-feedline linked to the liquid metal microstrip rectangle-shaped patch (40 × 31 mm2) was designed. The antenna pattern was printed on a printing paper using a laser printer. A liquid metal soaked roller was rolled on the antenna pattern printed paper, resulting in a liquid metal pattern where there was no toner. The resonant frequency of the liquid metal on the paper microstrip patch antenna was 2.88 GHz with −18.5 dB S11. The measured characteristics of the antenna were in good agreement with the simulation results. When the antenna was folded, the resonant frequency was changed to 2.68 GHz (x-axis folding) or 2.72 GHz (y-axis folding). Liquid metal on paper fabrication is simple but effective for creating custom-designed antennas that are easily re-designed and fabricated in the field.
- Subjects :
- General Physics and Astronomy
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- ISSN :
- 21583226
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- AIP Advances
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........a658f654472bce3187f1883f5f89a25d