Technology for fully printable and rollable ground penetrating radar (GPR) systems

Author

Traille, Anya ; Coustou, Antony ; Aubert, H. ; Sangkil Kim ; Tentzeris, Manos M.

Author_Institution

LAAS, Toulouse, France

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 July 2014

Firstpage

334

Lastpage

335

Abstract

Ground penetrating radars (GPR) operate at U/VHF bands and utilize wide frequency sweep bandwidths thus require complex architectures and bulky broadband antennas. This compromises system portability for transportation and outdoor measurements. This paper presents a conformal radar system in which the passives, actives and antennas share the same flexible substrate utilizing inkjet-printed technologies; a proposed radar technology which is referred to as monolithic. The system integration, packaging and measurements of the entire system are presented. In addition, the flexibility performance is benchmarked showing excellent performance as a rollable GPR system.

Keywords

broadband antennas; ground penetrating radar; ink jet printing; radar antennas; GPR system; broadband antenna; conformal passive radar system; fully printable rollable ground penetrating radar system; inkjet-printed technology; integration; outdoor measurement; packaging; radar inkjet-printed antenna; transportation; wide frequency sweep bandwidth; Nonhomogeneous media; RF signals; Silver;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Memphis, TN

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3538-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2014.6904499

Filename

6904499