Printed Antennas: 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: closed (15 April 2025) | Viewed by 552
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
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
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 printed antennas. The current trend to develop “greener” electronics forces us to develop our systems on more environmentally friendly substrates, such as paper or cellulose, among others. On these greener antennas, various printing techniques must therefore be implemented to deposit the metallizations on such substrates (microcontact printing, screen-printing method, etc.). These antennas printed on biosourced substrates must also present interesting performances. This scope includes new areas of application and ways of integrating these communicating elements, such as antennas printed on textiles (smart textiles) but also antennas printed on flexible substrates, such as for RFID applications, 5G and 6G wireless technologies, etc. In this Special Issue, the problem of controlling the beam shape, the pointing direction of the beam, or improving the gain of these printed antennas can also be addressed. The area covered is therefore very broad.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Antennas on biosourced substrates.
- Textile antennas.
- Flexible antennas.
- Antenna printing techniques.
- High-gain antennas.
- Reconfigurable antennas.
- Miniaturized antennas.
- Antenna beamforming.
- Antenna beam steering.
- Antenna integration techniques.
Dr. Gregory Houzet
Dr. Thierry Lacrevaz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antennas on biosourced substrates
- textile antennas
- flexible antennas
- antenna printing techniques
- high-gain antennas
- reconfigurable antennas
- miniaturized antennas
- antenna beamforming
- antenna beam steering
- antenna integration techniques
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