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

fYear

2012

fDate

8-14 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0461-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2012.6348933

Filename

6348933