Antennas and RF Circuits on Biobased Substrates: Development, Performance and Integration
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2025 | Viewed by 341
Special Issue Editors
Interests: high-frequency measurement and characterization of devices (passive components and materials); development of HF parameter extraction techniques; antenna analysis and design
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Interests: high-frequency measurement and characterization of devices (passive components and materials); development of HF parameter extraction techniques; antenna analysis and design
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will address the field of RF elements and biobased substrates. Due to the current need to fabricate “greener” electronics, we must develop systems using more environmentally friendly substrates, such as paper, cellulose and textiles. Various printing techniques must therefore be implemented on these greener circuits in order to deposit the metallization on the substrate; these techniques include microcontact printing, the screen-printing method and wire weaving. These circuits, when printed onto biobased substrates, must also exhibit an interesting performance. The scope of this Special Issue includes novel areas of application and means of integrating these communicating elements, such as woven metallization on textiles (smart textiles) and the printing of antennas or circuits onto flexible substrates. This includes, for instance, RFID applications, 5G and 6G wireless technologies and filtering.
We welcome the submission of articles that address the following topics:
- antennas and RF circuits on biobased substrates
- textile antennas and RF circuits
- flexible substrates
- metallization printing techniques
- high-gain antennas
- reconfigurable antennas and circuits
- miniaturized antennas and circuits
- antenna beamforming
- antenna beam steering
- antenna integration techniques
Dr. Gregory Houzet
Dr. Thierry Lacrevaz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biobased substrates for RF electronics
- textile antennas and circuits
- flexible antennas and circuits
- printing techniques
- high-gain antennas
- reconfigurable antennas and circuits
- miniaturized antennas and circuits
- antenna beamforming
- antenna beam steering
- integration techniques
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