Cost-Driven Design of Printed Wideband Antennas with Reduced Silver Ink Consumption for the Internet of Things
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摘要
The Internet of Things (IoT) accelerates the need for compact, lightweight and low-cost antennas combining wideband operation with a high integration potential. Although screen printing is excellently suited for manufacturing conformal antennas on a flexible substrate, its application is typically limited due to the expensive nature of conductive inks. This paper investigates how the production cost of a flexible coplanar waveguide (CPW)-fed planar monopole antenna can be reduced by exploiting a mesh-based method for limiting ink consumption. Prototypes with mesh grids of different line widths and densities were screen-printed on a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) foil using silver-based nanoparticle ink. Smaller line widths decrease antenna gain and efficiency, while denser mesh grids better approximate unmeshed antenna behavior, albeit at the expense of greater ink consumption. A meshed prototype of 34.76 x 58.03 mm with almost 80% ink reduction compared to an unmeshed counterpart is presented. It is capable of providing wideband coverage in the IMT/LTE-1/n1 (1.92-2.17 GHz), LTE-40/n40 (2.3-2.4 GHz), 2.45 GHz ISM (2.4-2.4835 GHz), IMT-E/LTE-7/n7 (2.5-2.69 GHz), and n78 5G (3.3-3.8 GHz) frequency bands. It exhibits a peak radiation efficiency above 90% and a metallized surface area of 2.46 cm(2) (yielding an ink-to-total-surface ratio of 12.2%).
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flexible antenna, ink reduction, Internet of Things (IoT), meshed antenna, nanoparticle silver ink, printed antenna, screen printing, wideband antenna, 5G
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