Significance of Conductivity and Thickness of Thin Inkjet Printed Microstrip Lines

Author

Pynttari, Vesa ; Makinen, Riku ; Lilja, Juha ; Pekkanen, Ville ; Mansikkamaki, Pauliina ; Kivikoski, Markku

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere

fYear

2008

fDate

12-15 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The effect of conductor loss of very thin lossy printed silver nano-particle traces manufactured using the printable electronics technology is studied up to 10 GHz by simulations and measurements. First, microstrip resonators are used as test structures with measurements and simulations. In addition to this, the behavior of the attenuation of microstrip lines with different conductivity value and layer thickness pairs have been studied with simulations to achieve basic guidelines for the effects of parameter variation.

Keywords

absorbing media; electrical conductivity; microstrip resonators; nanoparticles; printed circuits; silver; conductor loss; line conductivity; line thickness; microstrip resonators; printable electronics technology; thin inkjet printed microstrip lines; very thin lossy printed silver nanoparticle traces; Circuit simulation; Conductivity; Conductors; Copper; Ink; Microstrip resonators; Printed circuits; Printing; Radio frequency; Silver;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Propagation on Interconnects, 2008. SPI 2008. 12th IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Avignon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2317-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2318-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPI.2008.4558410

Filename

4558410