Silver-Nanoparticle-Based Screen-Printing and Film Characterization of a Disposable, Dual-Band, Bandstop Filter on a Flexible Polyethylene Terephthalate Substrate

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Characterization of the printed Ag films after sintering to achieve the proposed DBBSF: (a) XRD pattern of the screen-printed Ag film on the PET substrate, (b) calculated skin depth () from the measured conductivity (), (c) SEM image of a cross section of the screen-printed Ag film on the PET substrate, and (d) magnified SEM image to measure the thickness of the screen-printed Ag film.

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