Inkjet printing of a wideband, high gain mm-Wave Vivaldi antenna on a flexible organic substrate
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Tehrani, Bijan; Cook, Benjamin; Cooper, James; Tentzeris, Manos
- Source
- 2014 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI) Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2014 IEEE. :320-321 Jul, 2014
- Subject
- Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Antenna measurements
Broadband antennas
Printing
Wideband
Fabrication
Substrates
Gain
- Language
- ISSN
- 1522-3965
1947-1491
A wideband, high gain mm-Wave Vivaldi antenna on a flexible substrate operating above 40 GHz with a realized gain greater than 9 dBi is demonstrated in this paper. This work presents both the highest frequency and highest gain antenna fabricated through inkjet printing to date. Inkjet printing allows for a rapid, low-cost, and environmentally advantageous fabrication of electronic components compared to traditional techniques and is currently advancing into mm-Wave operation for applications in high data-rate wireless communications.