Inkjet-printed elastomeric millimeter-wave devices

Author

Pacchini, Sebastien ; Hage-Ali, Sami ; Togonal, Alienor ; Tiercelin, Nicolas ; Pernod, Philippe ; Coquet, Philippe

Author_Institution

CINTRA, NTU, Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2014

fDate

6-9 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

16

Abstract

Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS Sylgard 184) has become a popular substrate for stretchable electronics and conformal microwave devices in the 60-GHz band. In this communication we describe the fast prototyping and measurements of transmission lines and antennas at millimeter waves, based on the inkjet printing of silver nanoparticles inks on PDMS. The surface treatment of PDMS and the inkjet printing technique are detailed. There is a good agreement between modeling and millimeter-wave measurements, thus validating the potential of this approach for low cost ultra-flexible millimeter-wave electronics.

Keywords

elastomers; flexible electronics; ink jet printing; millimetre wave devices; nanoparticles; silver; substrates; surface treatment; PDMS Sylgard 184; antenna; conformal microwave device; frequency 60 GHz; inkjet-printed elastomeric millimeter-wave device; millimeter-wave measurement; polydimethylsiloxane; silver nanoparticle ink; stretchable electronics; substrate; surface treatment; transmission line measurement; ultraflexible millimeter-wave electronics; Ink; Loss measurement; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Plasmas; Surface treatment; Transmission line measurements; PDMS; Ultra-flexible antenna; elastomer; inkjet-printing; millimeter-wave;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2014 44th European

Conference_Location

Rome

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuMC.2014.6986357

Filename

6986357