Millimeter-wave printed antennas on ultrasoft polymer substrate

Author

Hage-Ali, S. ; Tiercelin, N. ; Coquet, P. ; Sauleau, R. ; Le Coq, L. ; Fujita, H. ; Preobrazhensky, V. ; Pernod, P.

Author_Institution

Joint Eur. Lab. LEMAC, Univ. de Lille 1, Villeneuve-d´´Ascq, France

fYear

2010

fDate

12-16 April 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The use of Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), an ultra flexible elastomer, as a substrate for microwave devices in the 60 GHz band is reported. Bulk PDMS is demonstrated to be lossy at millimeter waves, that is why membrane-supported devices are considered. A reliable and robust technological process has been developped to micromachine membrane-supported transmission lines and microstrip antennas. A microstrip antenna array has been designed, fabricated and studied to demonstrate the feasibility of directive antennas supported by large membranes. Promising applications for mechanical beam-steering, beam forming and frequency tunable antennas are expected.

Keywords

Biomembranes; Directive antennas; Microstrip antenna arrays; Microstrip antennas; Microwave devices; Millimeter wave devices; Millimeter wave technology; Polymers; Robustness; Transmission line antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2010 Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona, Spain

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6431-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-84-7653-472-4

Type

conf

Filename

5505742