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Abstract
In this paper, a conductive layer is developed by printing a graphene nanoparticles-based conductive ink on the silk fabric showing surface resistance of 2.3 S
and conductivity of
Sm
, respectively. The printed silk fabric is utilized to fabricate
mode wideband antenna for aeronautical radio-navigation applications centered at 4200 MHz. Excellent
impedance bandwidth of 26.4% is obtained by incorporating a patch-ground shorting stub. The antenna has reasonable radiation efficiency above 74% including packaging losses and conical radiation pattern at higher order mode. The simulation and measurements are performed considering practical scenario showing excellent measured results.
Notes
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