A magnetic nano-particle ink for tunable microwave applications

Ghaffar, Farhan A.; Vaseem, Mohammad; Shamim, Atif

A magnetic nano-particle ink for tunable microwave applications

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Conference Paper

Authors

Ghaffar, Farhan A.

Vaseem, Mohammad

Shamim, Atif

KAUST Department

Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Electrical Engineering Program

Online Publication Date

2016-12-19

Print Publication Date

2016-09

Date

2016-12-19

Abstract

Inkjet printing or printing for realization of inexpensive and large area electronics has unearthed as an attractive fabrication technique. Though at present, mostly the metallic inks are printed on regular microwave substrates. In this paper, a fully printed multilayer fabrication process is demonstrated where the substrate is also realized through printing. A novel Fe2O3 based magnetic ink is used as a substrate while an in-house silver organo complex (SOC) ink is developed for metallic layers. Complete magnetostatic and microwave characterization of the ink is presented. At the end, a tunable patch antenna is shown as an application using the magnetic ink as the substrate. The antenna shows a tuning range of 12.5 % for a magnetic field strength of 3 kOe.

Citation

Ghaffar FA, Vaseem M, Shamim A (2016) A magnetic nano-particle ink for tunable microwave applications. 2016 IEEE Middle East Conference on Antennas and Propagation (MECAP). Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MECAP.2016.7790109.