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A Printed Xi-Shaped Left-Handed Metamaterial on Low-Cost Flexible Photo Paper

A Xi-shaped meta structure, has been introduced in this paper. A modified split-ring resonator (MSRR) and a capacitive loaded strip (CLS) were used to achieve the left-handed property of the metamaterial. The structure was printed using silver metallic nanoparticle ink, using a very low-cost photo p...

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Autores principales: Ashraf, Farhad Bin, Alam, Touhidul, Islam, Mohammad Tariqul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5551795/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28773113
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma10070752
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description A Xi-shaped meta structure, has been introduced in this paper. A modified split-ring resonator (MSRR) and a capacitive loaded strip (CLS) were used to achieve the left-handed property of the metamaterial. The structure was printed using silver metallic nanoparticle ink, using a very low-cost photo paper as a substrate material. Resonators were inkjet-printed using silver nanoparticle metallic ink on paper to make this metamaterial flexible. It is also free from any kind of chemical waste, which makes it eco-friendly. A double negative region from 8.72 GHz to 10.91 GHz (bandwidth of 2.19 GHz) in the X-band microwave spectra was been found. Figure of merit was also obtained to measure any loss in the double negative region. The simulated result was verified by the performance of the fabricated prototype. The total dimensions of the proposed structure were 0.29 λ × 0.29 λ × 0.007 λ. It is a promising unit cell because of its simplicity, cost-effectiveness, and easy fabrication process.
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spelling pubmed-55517952017-08-11 A Printed Xi-Shaped Left-Handed Metamaterial on Low-Cost Flexible Photo Paper Ashraf, Farhad Bin Alam, Touhidul Islam, Mohammad Tariqul Materials (Basel) Article A Xi-shaped meta structure, has been introduced in this paper. A modified split-ring resonator (MSRR) and a capacitive loaded strip (CLS) were used to achieve the left-handed property of the metamaterial. The structure was printed using silver metallic nanoparticle ink, using a very low-cost photo paper as a substrate material. Resonators were inkjet-printed using silver nanoparticle metallic ink on paper to make this metamaterial flexible. It is also free from any kind of chemical waste, which makes it eco-friendly. A double negative region from 8.72 GHz to 10.91 GHz (bandwidth of 2.19 GHz) in the X-band microwave spectra was been found. Figure of merit was also obtained to measure any loss in the double negative region. The simulated result was verified by the performance of the fabricated prototype. The total dimensions of the proposed structure were 0.29 λ × 0.29 λ × 0.007 λ. It is a promising unit cell because of its simplicity, cost-effectiveness, and easy fabrication process. MDPI 2017-07-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5551795/ /pubmed/28773113 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma10070752 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_full A Printed Xi-Shaped Left-Handed Metamaterial on Low-Cost Flexible Photo Paper
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title_short A Printed Xi-Shaped Left-Handed Metamaterial on Low-Cost Flexible Photo Paper
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5551795/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28773113
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma10070752
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