Low-Loss Paper Substrate for Printed High Efficiency Antennas at 2.45 GHz

Author

Kharrat, I. ; Xavier, P. ; Vuong, T.-P. ; Duchamp, J.-M. ; Benech, Ph ; Tourtollet, G. Eymin Petot

Author_Institution

IMEP-LAHC, Univ. Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France

Volume

14

fYear

2015

fDate

2015

Firstpage

1400

Lastpage

1403

Abstract

In this letter, we present an innovative solution to achieve high efficiency printed antennas made on paper substrate. A corrugated cardboard is introduced for the first time for RF circuits. This substrate has been characterized with small perturbation method. It presents a dielectric constant of 1.41 and loss tangent of 0.042. Subsequently, patch antennas were realized on corrugated cardboard and classical paper substrate. A measured gain of 5.12 dBi is reached with corrugated cardboard compared to -3.24 dBi for classical paper. Simulation results show a good agreement with measurement.

Keywords

microstrip antennas; permittivity; perturbation techniques; RF circuits; classical paper substrate; corrugated cardboard; dielectric constant; frequency 2.45 GHz; loss tangent; low-loss paper substrate; patch antennas; printed high efficiency antennas; small perturbation method; Antenna measurements; Dielectric losses; Gain; Patch antennas; Substrates; Antenna; dielectric losses; pulp and paper industry;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2015.2409214

Filename

7055230