TY - GEN
T1 - Multi-GHz microstrip transmission lines realised by screen printing on flexible substrates
AU - Shi, Yizhi
AU - Jiang, Zhenzhen
AU - Lam, Sang
AU - Leach, Mark
AU - Wang, Jingchen
AU - Lim, Eng Gee
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/7/2
Y1 - 2017/7/2
N2 - This paper reports experimental work on 50 Ω microstrip transmission lines implemented by screen-printing low-cost silver paste onto thin flexible polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates of varying thickness. The microstrip line designs are based on PET substrates with thicknesses of 1.4 mm, 0.7 mm and 0.5 mm, leading to conductive track widths of 3.8 mm, 1.7 mm and 1.2 mm respectively for a 50 Ω line; these designs were then realised. The S-parameter measurements show that the insertion loss of the microstrip transmission lines on each substrate can be as low as 0.2 dB/cm, 0.17 dB/cm, and 0.14 dB/cm up to a frequency of 5 GHz in spite of the average quality of the silver paste used. The experimental results also show that the screen-printed transmission lines still work quite well in bent condition and wearable electronics application at GHz is possible.
AB - This paper reports experimental work on 50 Ω microstrip transmission lines implemented by screen-printing low-cost silver paste onto thin flexible polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates of varying thickness. The microstrip line designs are based on PET substrates with thicknesses of 1.4 mm, 0.7 mm and 0.5 mm, leading to conductive track widths of 3.8 mm, 1.7 mm and 1.2 mm respectively for a 50 Ω line; these designs were then realised. The S-parameter measurements show that the insertion loss of the microstrip transmission lines on each substrate can be as low as 0.2 dB/cm, 0.17 dB/cm, and 0.14 dB/cm up to a frequency of 5 GHz in spite of the average quality of the silver paste used. The experimental results also show that the screen-printed transmission lines still work quite well in bent condition and wearable electronics application at GHz is possible.
KW - S-parameter
KW - insertion loss
KW - microstrip transmission line
KW - polyethylene terephthalate
KW - radio frequency (RF)
KW - screen printing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85050490202&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/EDAPS.2017.8277038
DO - 10.1109/EDAPS.2017.8277038
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85050490202
T3 - 2017 IEEE Electrical Design of Advanced Packaging and Systems Symposium, EDAPS 2017
SP - 1
EP - 3
BT - 2017 IEEE Electrical Design of Advanced Packaging and Systems Symposium, EDAPS 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 IEEE Electrical Design of Advanced Packaging and Systems Symposium, EDAPS 2017
Y2 - 14 December 2017 through 16 December 2017
ER -