Anisotropic/isotropic carbon-fiber nanocomposites for emerging RF/antenna/microwave applications

Author

Mehdipour, Aidin ; Sebak, Abdel Razik ; Trueman, Christopher W. ; Rosca, Iosif D. ; Hoa, Suong V. ; Denidni, Tayeb A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

fYear

2014

fDate

13-16 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A new generation of antennas and microwave circuits based on carbon-fiber nanocomposites is presented for future wearable/flexible wireless technology and smart textiles. We used two kinds of nanocomposites, namely reinforced continuous carbon-fiber composite (RCCFC) and carbon nanotube (CNT). It is shown by exploiting the anisotropy of conductivity in RCCFC, new and exotic antenna characteristics such as reconfigurable designs can be achieved. By proposing a novel fabrication method, arbitrarily-shaped antennas made of conductive CNT buckypapers are built and tested.

Keywords

carbon nanotubes; microwave circuits; nanocomposites; wearable antennas; CNT; RCCFC; anisotropic carbon-fiber nanocomposite; arbitrarily-shaped antennas; carbon nanotube; conductive CNT buckypapers; conductivity anisotropy; flexible wireless technology; isotropic carbon-fiber nanocomposite; microwave circuits; reinforced continuous carbon-fiber composite; smart textiles; wearable wireless technology; Microwave antennas; Nanocomposites; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fiber polarization; Substrates;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM), 2014 16th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887653

Filename

6887653