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

fYear

2015

fDate

13-17 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2015 9th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Type

conf

Filename

7228220