Flexible antennas: A review

SG Kirtania, AW Elger, MR Hasan, A Wisniewska… - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
The field of flexible antennas is witnessing an exponential growth due to the demand for
wearable devices, Internet of Things (IoT) framework, point of care devices, personalized …

Polymer-based smart materials by printing technologies: Improving application and integration

J Oliveira, V Correia, H Castro, P Martins… - Additive …, 2018 - Elsevier
Smart and functional materials processed by printing technologies reveal an increasing
interest due to reduced cost of assembly, easy integration into devices and the possibility to …

Broadband millimeter-wave textile-based flexible rectenna for wearable energy harvesting

M Wagih, GS Hilton, AS Weddell… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands, a key part of future 5G networks, represent a potential
channel for RF energy harvesting, where the high-gain antenna arrays offer improved end-to …

A printed millimetre-wave modulator and antenna array for backscatter communications at gigabit data rates

J Kimionis, A Georgiadis, SN Daskalakis… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Future devices for the Internet of Things will require communication systems that can deliver
higher data rates at low power. Backscatter radio—in which wireless communication is …

Pattern switchable antenna system using inkjet-printed directional bow-tie for bi-direction sensing applications

SH Eom, Y Seo, S Lim - Sensors, 2015 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we propose a paper-based pattern switchable antenna system using inkjet-
printing technology for bi-direction sensor applications. The proposed antenna system is …

Millimeter-wave power harvesting: A review

M Wagih, AS Weddell, S Beeby - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The broad spectrum available at millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands has attracted significant
interest for a breadth of applications, with 5G communications being the main commercial …

Inkjet printing of multilayer millimeter-wave Yagi-Uda antennas on flexible substrates

BK Tehrani, BS Cook… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents two high-gain, multidirector Yagi-Uda antennas for use within the 24.5-
GHz ISM band, realized through a multilayer, purely additive inkjet printing fabrication …

Aerosol based direct-write micro-additive fabrication method for sub-mm 3D metal-dielectric structures

T Rahman, L Renaud, D Heo, M Renn… - … of Micromechanics and …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The fabrication of 3D metal-dielectric structures at sub-mm length scale is highly important in
order to realize low-loss passives and GHz wavelength antennas with applications in …

Smart surfaces: Large area electronics systems for Internet of Things enabled by energy harvesting

L Roselli, NB Carvalho, F Alimenti… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy harvesting is well established as one of the prominent enabling technologies [along
with radio-frequency identification (RFID), wireless power transfer, and green electronics] for …

Inkjet printing of wideband stacked microstrip patch array antenna on ultrathin flexible substrates

WT Li, YQ Hei, PM Grubb, XW Shi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a bandwidth-enhanced, low-cost, compact, inkjet-printed multilayer
microstrip fractal patch antenna for integration into flexible and conformal devices. The …