Carbon Nanotube Composites for Wideband Millimeter-Wave Antenna Applications

Author

Mehdipour, Aidin ; Rosca, Iosif D. ; Sebak, Abdel-Razik ; Trueman, ChristopherW ; Hoa, Suong V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Concordia Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada

Volume

59

Issue

10

fYear

2011

Firstpage

3572

Lastpage

3578

Abstract

In this paper, we explore using carbon nanotube (CNT) composite material for wideband millimeter-wave antenna applications. An accurate electromagnetic model of the composite antenna is developed using Microwave Studio for numerical analysis. Good agreement between computed and measured results is shown for both copper and CNT antennas, and their performance is compared. The CNT antenna shows stable gain and radiation patterns over the 24 to 34 GHz frequency range. The dispersion characteristics of the CNT antenna show its suitability for wideband communication systems. Using a quarter-wave matched T-junction as feed network, a two-element CNT antenna array is realized and the performance is compared with a copper antenna. The housing effect on the performance of the CNT antenna is shown to be much lower than for the copper antenna.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; broadband antennas; carbon nanotubes; microwave antenna arrays; millimetre wave antenna arrays; numerical analysis; carbon nanotube composites; copper antenna; electromagnetic model; feed network; microwave studio; numerical analysis; quarter-wave matched T-junction; two-element CNT antenna array; wideband communication system; wideband millimeter-wave antenna application; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Arrays; Copper; Microstrip antennas; Antenna; carbon nanotube (CNT) composites; millimeter-wave (mm-wave); wideband antenna;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2011.2163755

Filename

5976397