Title :
Microwave horn antenna made of a graphene-containing carbon composite material
Author :
Zaboronkova, Tatyana M. ; Dugin, Nikolai A. ; Myasnikov, Evgeny N.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Radiophys., Univ. of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Abstract :
A microwave horn antenna made of a graphene-containing carbon-based high-conductivity composite material has been developed. The antenna characteristics are compared with those of a similar antenna made of metal alloys. Electrodynamic characteristics of the developed antenna and the identical metal antenna have been measured in the frequency range 1.4-1.7 GHz. It is shown that the horn antenna made of graphene-containing composite material is capable of efficiently operating in the microwave band and possesses almost the same electrodynamic characteristics as the conventional metal antenna of the same geometry and size. However, the weight of the carbon-based antenna is much smaller than that of the corresponding metal antenna.
Keywords :
UHF antennas; composite materials; electrodynamics; graphene; horn antennas; microwave antennas; electrodynamic characteristics; frequency 1.4 GHz to 1.7 GHz; graphene-containing carbon-based high-conductivity composite material; microwave horn antenna; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Composite materials; Horn antennas; Metals; Microwave antennas; antenna measurements; carbon composite materials; horn antenna; microwave waveguides;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2015 9th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lisbon
