TY - GEN
T1 - A ferrite nano-particles based fully printed process for tunable microwave components
AU - Ghaffar, Farhan A.
AU - Vaseem, Mohammad
AU - Farooqui, Muhammad Fahad
AU - Shamim, Atif
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
PY - 2016/8/15
Y1 - 2016/8/15
N2 - With the advent of nano-particles based metallic inks, inkjet printing emerged as an attractive medium for fast prototyping as well as for low cost and flexible electronics. However, at present, it is limited to printing of metallic inks on conventional microwave substrates. For fully printed designs, ideally, the substrate must also be printed. In this work, we demonstrate a fully printed process utilizing a custom Fe2O3 based magnetic ink for functional substrate printing and a custom silver-organo-complex (SOC) ink for metal traces printing. Due to the magnetic nature of the ink, this process is highly suitable for tunable microwave components. The printed magnetic substrate is characterized for the magnetostatic as well as microwave properties. The measured B(H) curve shows a saturation magnetization and remanence of 1560 and 350 Gauss respectively. As a proof of concept, a patch antenna is implemented in the proposed stack up which shows a tuning range of 4 % around the center frequency. © 2016 IEEE.
AB - With the advent of nano-particles based metallic inks, inkjet printing emerged as an attractive medium for fast prototyping as well as for low cost and flexible electronics. However, at present, it is limited to printing of metallic inks on conventional microwave substrates. For fully printed designs, ideally, the substrate must also be printed. In this work, we demonstrate a fully printed process utilizing a custom Fe2O3 based magnetic ink for functional substrate printing and a custom silver-organo-complex (SOC) ink for metal traces printing. Due to the magnetic nature of the ink, this process is highly suitable for tunable microwave components. The printed magnetic substrate is characterized for the magnetostatic as well as microwave properties. The measured B(H) curve shows a saturation magnetization and remanence of 1560 and 350 Gauss respectively. As a proof of concept, a patch antenna is implemented in the proposed stack up which shows a tuning range of 4 % around the center frequency. © 2016 IEEE.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/621342
UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7540171/
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84985024328&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/MWSYM.2016.7540171
DO - 10.1109/MWSYM.2016.7540171
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781509006984
BT - 2016 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS)
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
ER -