Hairpin bandpass filter on Liquid Crystal Polymer substrate using inkjet printing technology

Author

Hsuan-ling Kao ; Cheng-Lin Cho ; Xin Dai ; Chih-Sheng Yeh ; Xiu-Yin Zhang ; Li-Chun Chang ; Hsien-Chin Chiu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chang Gung Univ., Taoyuan, Taiwan

fYear

2013

fDate

2-7 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Inkjet-printing technology is utilized to fabricate a bandpass filter on a Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP) substrates. Silver nanoparticle colloidal solution is used as the printing ink. The conductivity and thickness of silver film are 1~2×10⁷ Siemens/m and 3.6 μm, respectively. The hairpin bandpass filter has been developed using inkjet printing technology. Bending effect causes frequency shift and insertion loss reduction due to material deformation while bending the LCP substrate.

Keywords

band-pass filters; bending; ink jet printing; liquid crystal polymers; metallic thin films; microstrip filters; substrates; LCP substrates; bending effect; frequency shift; hairpin bandpass filter; inkjet-printing technology; insertion loss reduction; liquid crystal polymer substrates; material deformation; silver film; silver nanoparticle colloidal solution; size 3.6 mum; Band-pass filters; Insertion loss; Liquid crystal polymers; Microstrip; Printing; Silver; Substrates; Inkjet-printing; Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP); bandpass filter; bending;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest (IMS), 2013 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6177-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697627

Filename

6697627