Advanced conductive carbon fiber composite materials for antenna and microwave applications

Author

Mehdipour, Aidin ; Sebak, Abdel R. ; Trueman, Christopher W. ; Rosca, Iosif D. ; Hoa, Suong V.

Author_Institution

Mater. et Telecommun., EMT, INRS, Montreal, QC, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

8-14 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Carbon fiber composite (CFC) material is used for building antennas and microwave circuits as an effective alternative to metal. Two kinds of composite materials are considered, namely reinforced continuous carbon-fiber (RCCF) composites and carbon nanotube (CNT) composites. The effect of the conductivity tensor of anisotropic RCCF composite on the antenna performance is addressed. Highly conductive single wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) buckypapers are used to build composite material for antennas. A new fabrication method is proposed to print an arbitrarily-shaped full-composite SWCNT antenna on any type of substrate.

Keywords

antennas; carbon fibre reinforced composites; carbon fibres; carbon nanotubes; microwave circuits; microwave materials; CFC material; CNT composites; advanced conductive carbon fiber composite materials; anisotropic RCCF composite; antenna application; antenna performance; arbitrarily-shaped full-composite SWCNT antenna; carbon nanotube composites; composite materials; conductivity tensor; fabrication method; highly-conductive SWCNT buckypapers; highly-conductive single-wall carbon nanotube buckypapers; microwave application; microwave circuits; reinforced continuous carbon-fiber composites; substrate; Conductivity; Metals; Microwave antennas; Optical fiber LAN; Substrates;

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.2012.6349125

Filename

6349125