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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 114, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4822159
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- National Science Foundation EPSCoR [EPS-0903804]
- State of South Dakota
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) Young Faculty Award [N66001-11-1-4145]
- Air Force Research Laboratories/SAIC [FA9453-08-C-0245]
- National Science Foundation [ECS-1310400]
- NASA SD EPSCoR [NNX07AL04A]
- Greek Ministry of Education project THALIS (RF-EIGEN-SDR)
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1310400] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Office Of The Director
- EPSCoR [0903804] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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In this study, the temperature assisted decomposition/desorption behavior of short-chain single and mixed carboxylic acid encapsulants from the core of silver nanoparticles was investigated using thermogravimetric analysis and differential scanning calorimetry, and these particles were used to fabricate a flexible printed antenna. The decomposition temperatures of the single encapsulant particles increased with increasing chain length of encapsulants, whereas the decomposition temperatures for mixed encapsulant particles are close to the average of the corresponding decomposition temperatures of single encapsulant nanoparticles. These experimentally identified decomposition temperatures were utilized for sintering the printed antenna on a flexible substrate. The printed antenna showed a significantly low return loss of 22 dB. The antenna performance and radiation pattern are similar to a reference prototype antenna made of copper. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.
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