Design and characterisation of a screen-printed millimetre-wave flexible metasurface using copper ink for communication applications
Design and characterisation of a screen-printed millimetre-wave flexible metasurface using copper ink for communication applications
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DOI：
10.1088/2058-8585/aaf0eb
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发表时间：
2018-12
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
O. P. Falade;S. F. Jilani;A. Ahmed;Tom Wildsmith;P. Reip;K. Rajab;A. Alomainy
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作者：
O. P. Falade;S. F. Jilani;A. Ahmed;Tom Wildsmith;P. Reip;K. Rajab;A. Alomainy
在本文中，提出了具有毫米波（MMW）各向异性响应的超表面的设计、制造和表征，以实现无缝、安全和低损耗的高频通信。选择29 GHz和60 GHz两个频段来开发高效、经济且宽带超表面，分别构成八臂星形结构和对称双正交I形结构。低成本、高性能的纳米级印刷油墨和浆料已应用于丝网印刷技术中，以在柔性薄膜上制造设计的超表面。使用最先进的测试设施评估所提出的超表面的电磁（EM）特性，以展示其在高数据速率通信链路的毫米波波传播中的潜在性能属性。
In this paper, the design, fabrication and characterisation of metasurfaces with the anisotropic response for millimetre waves (MMW) has been presented for seamless, secure and low-loss high-frequency communication. Two frequency bands, 29 GHz and 60 GHz, have been selected for the development of efficient, cost-effective and broadband metasurfaces constituting an octa-armed star-shaped structure and a symmetric dual orthogonally I-shaped structure, respectively. Low-cost and high-performance nanoscale printing inks and pastes have been deployed in the screen-printing technique to perform the fabrication of designed metasurfaces on flexible films. Electromagnetic (EM) characteristics of the proposed metasurfaces are evaluated using state-of-the-art testing facilities to demonstrate their potential performance attributes in wave-propagation at MMW for high data rate communication links.