Carbon nanotubes as base material for fabrication of gap waveguide components
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2015

Microfabrication with Si has its benefits but it is time consuming when etching high ratio structures. Previously a ridge gap resonator has been fabricated in Si, with a pin height of 278 pm. In this paper carbon nanotubes, which can grow hundreds of micrometers within minutes are being used as a base material for a high frequency device. It has been implemented on a ridge gap resonator for 220-325 GHz. Carbon nanotubes based structures offer a rapid and low-cost turnover for prototyping. Measurements comparing two carbon nanotubes-based structures to a previously made Si structure and simulations are presented. From these measurements the unloaded Q-value and the loss/mm have been calculated and shows a loss of 0.079 dB/mm and 0.051 dB/mm for the lower frequency range respectively the higher frequency range, indicating that carbon nanotubes can be used for fast and low-cost prototyping of high-frequency devices.

Metamaterial

GHz

RF MEMS

Carbon nanotubes

High-frequency

Gap waveguide

Författare

Muhammad Amin

Chalmers, Teknisk fysik, Elektronikmaterial

Sofia Rahiminejad

Chalmers, Teknisk fysik, Elektronikmaterial

Vincent Desmaris

Smoltek AB

Peter Enoksson

Chalmers, Teknisk fysik, Elektronikmaterial

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

0924-4247 (ISSN)

Vol. 224 163-168

Styrkeområden

Informations- och kommunikationsteknik

Nanovetenskap och nanoteknik

Produktion

Drivkrafter

Innovation och entreprenörskap

Infrastruktur

Nanotekniklaboratoriet

Ämneskategorier

Annan elektroteknik och elektronik

DOI

10.1016/j.sna.2015.01.035

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