International Journal of Antennas and Propagation

Flexible Substrate Antennas


Publishing date
15 May 2012
Status
Published
Submission deadline
15 Nov 2011

1Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Carl Friedrich Gauss 7, 08860 Castelldefels, Spain

2Department of Information Technology, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

3The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA


Flexible Substrate Antennas

Description

Flexible electronics is a well-established technology that has reached a degree of maturity in meeting the requirements of tightly assembled electronic packages, in electrical connections where the assembly is required to flex during its normal use, or where board thickness, weight, or space constraints are driving factors. In this context, flexible substrate antennas appear as critical components of a new generation of smart devices, ranging from flexible wireless gadgets to professional wearable remote monitoring and control systems.

Researchers are continuingly seizing on flexible antenna technology to solve the problems of efficiency, reliability, cost, weight, shape, and reproducibility. Flex antennas are rapidly emerging as a popular technology for RFID tags, wearable computer systems and smart clothing, and spurring new applications in wireless sensing, health care supervision, and the integration in search and rescue systems. There is also the need of using environmentally friendly and low-cost materials, in order to allow for the easy disposal of a massive number (in the billions) of those devices.

This special issue aims at reflecting current research trends and new approaches in flex antennas. Prospective authors are invited to submit their original research or review papers dealing with advances in flexible substrate antennas. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • New flexible substrate materials and their characterization
  • Flexible antenna modeling and numerical techniques
  • Performance measurement of flexible antennas, both as components and being part of a complete system
  • Analysis of robustness/sensitivity to bending, stretching, and twisting
  • Fabrication techniques, assembly issues, integration, and packaging
  • Flexible active antennas and active antenna arrays
  • Flexible reconfigurable antennas
  • Textile antennas for wearable computing systems and smart clothing
  • New applications of flexible antennas

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijap/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:


Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 746360
  • - Editorial

Flexible Substrate Antennas

Carles Fernández-Prades | Hendrik Rogier | ... | Manos M. Tentzeris
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 353821
  • - Research Article

Novel Flexible Artificial Magnetic Conductor

M. E. de Cos | F. Las-Heras
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 980916
  • - Research Article

Flexible Sierpinski Carpet Fractal Antenna on a Hilbert Slot Patterned Ground

Vasa Radonić | Keith Palmer | ... | Vesna Crnojević-Bengin
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 905409
  • - Research Article

Performance of High-Permittivity Ceramic-Polymer Composite as a Substrate for UHF RFID Tag Antennas

A. A. Babar | V. A. Bhagavati | ... | L. Sydänheimo
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 972696
  • - Research Article

Efficiency of a Compact Elliptical Planar Ultra-Wideband Antenna Based on Conductive Polymers

Thomas Kaufmann | Akhilesh Verma | ... | Christophe Fumeaux
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 829780
  • - Research Article

Development of Full-Scale Ultrathin Shell Reflector

Durmuş Türkmen | Ömer Soykasap | Şükrü Karakaya
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 573438
  • - Research Article

High-Gain Textile Antenna Array System for Off-Body Communication

Maria Lucia Scarpello | Luigi Vallozzi | ... | Dries Vande Ginste
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 251682
  • - Research Article

Textile UWB Antenna Bending and Wet Performances

Mai A. R. Osman | M. K. A. Rahim | ... | M. E. Ali
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 837230
  • - Application Article

New Flexible Medical Compact Antenna: Design and Analysis

Yann Mahe | Anne Chousseaud | ... | Bruno Froppier
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 236505
  • - Research Article

Investigation of Flexible Textile Antennas and AMC Reflectors

M. Mantash | A.-C. Tarot | ... | K. Mahdjoubi
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