2.4 GHz low cost low noise amplifier on flexible organic substrate

Author

Fan Cai ; Ulusoy, A. Cagri ; Papapolymerou, John

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

5-8 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

270

Lastpage

272

Abstract

In this paper a low cost 2.4 GHz low noise amplifier on organic flexible substrate, that is widely used for organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) and flexible printed circuits, is presented. The amplifiers were fabricated by two ways, one with aerosol jet printing technology and the other with copper tape for reduced cost fabrication. Using the aerosol jet printing approach, the amplifier exhibits a measured performance of 12.09 dB gain and 2.4 dB noise figure compared with the copper tape implementation which exhibits 10.55 dB gain and 3.2 dB NF. This demonstration paves the way for low cost ISM sensors on flexible substrates utilized for a variety of functions (LEDs etc.) using digital manufacturing technology.

Keywords

aerosols; flexible electronics; low noise amplifiers; organic light emitting diodes; OLED; aerosol jet printing technology; copper tape; flexible organic substrate; flexible printed circuits; frequency 2.4 GHz; gain 12.09 dB; low cost low noise amplifier; noise figure 2.4 dB; organic light emitting diodes; Aerosols; Copper; Frequency measurement; Low-noise amplifiers; Noise figure; Printing; 2.4GHz; Low noise amplifier; OLED; flexible organic substrate;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2013 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Seoul

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2013.6695116

Filename

6695116