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 …

Flexible and stretchable antennas for biointegrated electronics

Z Xie, R Avila, Y Huang, JA Rogers - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Combined advances in material science, mechanical engineering, and electrical
engineering form the foundations of thin, soft electronic/optoelectronic platforms that have …

Flexible metasurfaces and metamaterials: A review of materials and fabrication processes at micro-and nano-scales

S Walia, CM Shah, P Gutruf, H Nili… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The ability to bend, stretch, and roll metamaterial devices on flexible substrates adds a new
dimension to aspects of manipulating electromagnetic waves and promises a new wave of …

Study of PDMS characterization and its applications in biomedicine: A review

A Victor, JE Ribeiro, FF Araújo - Journal of Mechanical …, 2019 - bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt
Polydimethylsiloxane, also known as PDMS, has been widely used in the biomedical
industry because of its biocompatible material and its biomechanical behavior is similar to …

Foldable printed circuit boards on paper substrates

AC Siegel, ST Phillips, MD Dickey, N Lu… - Advanced Functional …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This paper describes several low‐cost methods for fabricating flexible electronic circuits on
paper. The circuits comprise i) metallic wires (eg, tin or zinc) that are deposited on the …

Reversibly deformable and mechanically tunable fluidic antennas

JH So, J Thelen, A Qusba, GJ Hayes… - Advanced Functional …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This paper describes the fabrication and characterization of fluidic dipole antennas that are
reconfigurable, reversibly deformable, and mechanically tunable. The antennas consist of a …

Dual-band dual-mode textile antenna on PDMS substrate for body-centric communications

RBVB Simorangkir, Y Yang… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A dual-band antenna for off-and on-body communications in the 2.45-and 5.8-GHz
Industrial, Scientific, and Medical bands is presented. The two radiation characteristics, ie …

Stretchable microfluidic radiofrequency antennas

M Kubo, X Li, C Kim, M Hashimoto, BJ Wiley… - Advanced …, 2010 - dash.harvard.edu
Highly stretchable and robust antennas are fabricated by injecting liquid metal into a
microfluidic channel that consists of two types of silicone rubber with different stiffness. The …

Applications of microwave materials: A review

A Raveendran, MT Sebastian, S Raman - Journal of Electronic Materials, 2019 - Springer
The performance of microwave devices mainly depends on the properties of materials used
in the fabrication. Knowledge of material properties at microwave frequencies is a …

Selectively plated stretchable liquid metal wires for transparent electronics

G Li, X Wu, DW Lee - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents an innovative and versatile selective liquid-metal plating (SLMP)
process to realize a transparent stretchable circuit board (TSCB) with the capability of large …