Title :
Inkjet-printed planar antenna for a wireless sensor on paper operating at Wi-Fi frequency
Author :
Palacios, Sebastian ; Kim, Sangkil ; Elia, Samuel ; Rida, Amin ; Tentzeris, Manos M. ; Nikolaou, Symeon
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
Organic substrates is one of the leading solutions to realize ultra-low-cost and “green” wireless sensor applications. Inkjet printing on paper would be particularly economically appealing if commercial antennas could be replaced with printed antennas with similar performance. This paper presents the replacement of an inkjet-printed, planar, inverted-F antenna (PIFA) for a conventional commercially available, three dimensional (3D) monopole used in a Smart Wireless Integrated Module (SWIM). Both the sensor layout and PIFA antenna are inkjet-printed on paper substrate, in a first successful step towards the implementation of a fully operational, fully planar wireless sensor on paper at Wi-Fi frequency (2.4 GHz).
Keywords :
UHF antennas; ink jet printing; monopole antennas; planar inverted-F antennas; wireless LAN; wireless sensor networks; 3D monopole; SWIM; UHF antennas; Wi-Fi frequency; frequency 2.4 GHz; green wireless sensor; inkjet printing; organic substrates; paper substrate; planar inverted-F antenna; smart wireless integrated module; Antenna radiation patterns; Layout; Printing; Substrates; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0461-0
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2012.6348933
