Design and development of a graphene-based reconfigurable patch antenna array for THz applicationsShow others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: Frequenz, ISSN 0016-1136, E-ISSN 2191-6349, Vol. 77, no 3-4, p. 219-228Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This paper presents a graphene-based antenna array for terahertz (THz) applications. The suggested antenna array has four radiating square shaped patches fed by a coplanar waveguide (CPW) technique. The proposed antenna array operates at the three frequencies with operational bandwidths of 1.173-1.210 THz (at 1.19 THz), 1.270-1.320 THz (at 1.3 GHz), and 1.368-1.346 THz (at 1.4 GHz). The total area of the antenna array is reported as 1000 × 1000 μm2, printed on a Silicon substrate with a thickness of 20 μm and a dielectric constant of ϵ r = 11.9. To enhance the structure's performance and optimize the feeding network, a parametric analysis was performed using the FDTD technique. Furthermore, the key properties of the proposed antenna array, such as resonance frequency, peak gain, and radiation efficiency, may be changed by adjusting the chemical potentials of the graphene in the antenna array. The use of graphene's chemical potential tuneability yields exceptional results comparing to the recent research outputs, with a peak gain and radiation efficiency of 10.45 dB and 70%, respectively. These results show the performance of the suggested design for constructing antenna arrays for use in THz applications.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Walter de Gruyter GmbH , 2023. Vol. 77, no 3-4, p. 219-228
Keywords [en]
antenna array, graphene-based reconfigurable antenna, terahertz wireless applications, triple-band, Antenna arrays, Antenna feeders, Chemical potential, Coplanar waveguides, Finite difference time domain method, Microstrip antennas, Microwave antennas, Mobile antennas, Radiation efficiency, Slot antennas, Gain efficiency, Peak gain, Reconfigurable antenna, Tera Hertz, Terahertz applications, Terahertz wireless application, Wireless application, Graphene
National Category
Telecommunications
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-325985DOI: 10.1515/freq-2022-0051ISI: 000824957900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85134520076OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-325985DiVA, id: diva2:1752227
Note
QC 20230421
2023-04-212023-04-212023-04-21Bibliographically approved