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Ultra-Wideband Printed Antennas Design

On February 14, 2002, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the United States adopted the First Report and Order that permitted the commercial operation of ultra wideband (UWB) technology (FCC, 2002). The FCC allocated a bandwidth of 7.5GHz, i.e. from 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz, to unlicensed use for UWB applications. Ultra Wideband is defined as any communication technology that occupies great...

A Novel Ultra-Wideband Printed Monopole Antenna

In this paper, we introduce a novel printed monopole antenna for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications. The antenna is composed of two overlapped circular disc monopoles with a finite ground plane and fed by a 50 microstrip line. The designed antenna operates over impedance bandwidth (2.9 to 11.6GHz) for return loss S Ω 11 < -10dB. The antenna also shows omni-directional radiation patterns and good...

Ultra-low voltage electrowetting using graphite surfaces.

The control of wetting behaviour underpins a variety of important applications from lubrication to microdroplet manipulation. Electrowetting is a powerful method to achieve external wetting control, by exploiting the potential-dependence of the liquid contact angle with respect to a solid substrate. Addition of a dielectric film to the surface of the substrate, which insulates the electrode fro...

Multifunctional CNT-polymer composites for ultra-tough structural supercapacitors and desalination devices.

Pulsed electrodeposition of polyaniline (PANI) allows the fabrication of flexible, electrically conductive, nonwoven PANI-carbon nanotube (PANI-CNT) composite fabrics. They possess specific tensile strength and a modulus of toughness higher than that of aluminum matrix composites, titanium and aluminum alloys, steels, and many other structural materials. Electrochemical tests show that these na...