Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube-based Flexible Monopole Antenna Fabricated using Poly (methyl methacrylate)-supported Transfer Technique
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Kuromatsu, Sho; Watanabe, Takeshi; Nonoguchi, Yoshiyuki; Suga, Ryosuke; Hashimoto, Osamu; Koh, Shinji
- Source
- 2022 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) Microwave Conference (APMC), 2022 Asia-Pacific. :866-868 Nov, 2022
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Microwave antennas
Microwave technology
Films
Blades
Metals
Carbon nanotubes
Reflector antennas
single-wall carbon nanotube
transfer
monopole antenna
flexible antenna
- Language
The demand for flexible antennas is growing due to the increasing number of IoT -related devices. We fabricated single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT)-based flexible monopole antennas using our developed poly (methyl methacrylate)-supported transfer technique. We evaluated reflection coefficients $(\vert S_{11}\vert)$, radiation patterns, and maximum gain of the un-bended and bended SWCNT antennas. The maximum gains of the unbended and bended SWCNT antennas were almost the same, and the radiation patterns behaved similarly to a metal antenna. These results demonstrate versatile potential for the application of SWCNT films to flexible antennas.