A study of microstrip antenna made of transparent ITO films

Author

Guilin Sun ; Muneer, Badar ; Qi Zhu

Author_Institution

Dept. of EEIS, Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, Hefei, China

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 July 2014

Firstpage

1867

Lastpage

1868

Abstract

In this paper, the optically transparent microstrip antenna made of transparent ITO (Indium Tin Oxide) films is investigated. The present transparent microstrip antenna comprises a thin sheet of quartz glass substrate with two conductive ITO film coatings and is fed through a coaxial probe. As an example, an X-band transparent microstrip antenna is designed, fabricated and measured. To discuss the effect of electromagnetic leakage of ITO film on the radiation efficiency, two rectangle cavity resonators with same dimensions are analyzed. The boundary conditions of the two resonators are the same except the top layers of one is copper while the other is ITO film with sheet resistance of 3Ω/sq.

Keywords

antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; cavity resonators; indium compounds; microstrip antennas; quartz; tin compounds; ITO; X-band transparent microstrip antenna; coaxial probe feed; conductive ITO film coatings; copper; electromagnetic leakage; indium tin oxide films; optically transparent microstrip antenna; quartz glass substrate; radiation efficiency; rectangle cavity resonators; sheet resistance; transparent ITO films; Antenna measurements; Films; Indium tin oxide; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Optical resonators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Memphis, TN

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3538-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2014.6905260

Filename

6905260