Circuits and antennas incorporating gallium-based liquid metal

YW Wu, S Alkaraki, SY Tang, Y Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reviews the application and technology advancement of gallium (Ga)-based
liquid metal (LM) in high-frequency circuits and antennas. It discusses the material …

A brief review of frequency, radiation pattern, polarization, and compound reconfigurable antennas for 5G applications

M Kamran Shereen, MI Khattak… - Journal of Computational …, 2019 - Springer
All antennas in which frequency and radiation patterns can be modified in a reversible and
controlled manner are known as reconfigurable antennas. They are different from other …

Handwritten, Soft Circuit Boards and Antennas Using Liquid Metal Nanoparticles.

Y Lin, C Cooper, M Wang, JJ Adams… - Small (Weinheim an …, 2015 - europepmc.org
Soft conductors are created by embedding liquid metal nanoparticles between two
elastomeric sheets. Initially, the particles form an electrically insulating composite. Soft circuit …

Recoverable liquid metal paste with reversible rheological characteristic for electronics printing

H Chang, P Zhang, R Guo, Y Cui, Y Hou… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Gallium-based liquid metals are applied in the fabrication of soft electronics because of their
conductivity and flexibility. However, the large surface tension and weak adhesion of liquid …

On-demand magnetic manipulation of liquid metal in microfluidic channels for electrical switching applications

J Jeon, JB Lee, SK Chung, D Kim - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We report magnetic-field-driven on-demand manipulation of liquid metal in microfluidic
channels filled with base or acid. The liquid metal was coated with iron (Fe) particles and …

Continuous electrowetting of non-toxic liquid metal for RF applications

RC Gough, AM Morishita, JH Dang, W Hu… - IEEE …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Continuous electrowetting (CEW) is demonstrated to be an effective actuation mechanism
for reconfigurable radio frequency (RF) devices that use non-toxic liquid-metal tuning …

Design and fabrication of multiband reconfigurable copper and liquid multiple complementary split-ring resonator based patch antenna

TK Nguyen, SK Patel, S Lavadiya… - Waves in Random and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The paper presents a multiband frequency reconfigurable microstrip patch antenna structure
loaded by copper-based and water liquid-based superstrate resonators. The frequency …

Magnetically‐and electrically‐controllable functional liquid metal droplets

F Li, S Kuang, X Li, J Shu, W Li… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Gallium‐based room temperature liquid metal alloys have recently been explored to be an
emerging functional material. They have attracted particular attentions in a variety of …

Fluidics in microwave components

K Entesari, AP Saghati - IEEE Microwave Magazine, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thanks to the efforts of various research groups over the past decade in the area of tunable
microwave passive components, the idea of tunability has become very well established …

A liquid-metal polarization-pattern-reconfigurable dipole antenna

GB Zhang, RC Gough, MR Moorefield… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An electrically actuated reconfigurable liquid-metal dipole antenna is presented. Using
electrocapillary actuation, a 5 VDC signal can actuate the liquid metal Galinstan into five …