Flexible Inkjet-Printed Antennas

Design, Fabrication, and Applications
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-981-4968-87-4
Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 154 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Flexible inkjet-printed antennas are lightweight, low-cost radio-frequency components fabricated by depositing conductive inks onto flexible substrates such as polyimide, polyethylene terephthalate, paper, or textiles. This additive manufacturing method enables rapid prototyping without masks or etching, significantly reducing material waste and production time. Conductive inks—often based on silver nanoparticles, copper, or conductive polymers—are patterned with high precision to form antenna geometries for applications across Wi-Fi, RFID, NFC, Bluetooth, and emerging IoT systems for wearable electronics, smart packaging, biomedical devices, and soft robotics.

This textbook presents the basic knowledge of printed inkjet antenna on flexible substrates, including fabrication techniques, substrates used, most important characterizations, and different applications such as wireless sensor networks, wearable electronics, and smart textiles. It provides professionals and graduate students an optimum literature survey of the basic knowledge beyond the flexible printed antennas and circuits in general.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shehata, Nader

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Elektrotechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction to Flexible Electronics 2. Printing Techniques 3. Flexible Inkjet-Printed Antenna Fabrication, Design, and Measurement Procedures 4. Flexible UWB Antennas on Polymer-Based Conductive Material 5. Printed Flexible Reconfigurable Wideband Antenna Design for Hybrid Wireless Communication Systems 6. Organic Fibers in Printed Electronics: Processing and Applications

Über Autor(innen)

Nader Shehata is a physics professor and associate director of the Center of Smart Materials, Nanotechnology, and Photonics at Alexandria University, Egypt, director of research at Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Kuwait, and adjunct associate professor at the Faculty of Science, Utah State University, United States. He works on nanostructure synthesis, characterization, and correlated applications in piezoelectric energy harvesting, flexible electronics, environmental sensing, solar cells, and biomedicine. Dr Shehata has secured around $2.2 million in research grants, published more than 70 journal articles, 2 edited books, and a few edited book chapters, and participated in more than 20 international conference appearances, including invited talks, oral presentations, poster sessions, and proceedings. He is the editor-in-chief and a topical guest editor for several nanotechnology journals and a reviewer for several funding agencies and journals. He is a senior IEEE member and a fellow with UK Higher Education (FHEA).