Design and evaluation of flexible antenna with synthesized substrate material for wireless applications

Abstract

Changes in our regular lifestyle from rigid to flexible have motivated and began a great deal of work on flexible electronics, which has incredible applications such as flexible displays, flexible circuits, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, flexible batteries, and so on. Flexible electronics attracted a lot of researchers including us to start the research in them. In the current scenario, it was evidenced a great value of interest in the field of flexible antennas from both academia as well as the industrial world. In other words, this field attains the top spot of research activities provided by many research agencies from national as well as international levels. They have the advantages of less weight, low-cost production, ease to fabricate, and the frequent availability of cheaper flexible substrates make flexible technology the desired member for the future world of electronics. It is also known that the efficiency of the flexible systems is mainly dependent on the properties and characteristics of the flexible antenna that have good bending support. The flexible electronic device has difficulties in finding the suitable material to be used as a substrate for the device fabrications. So, it is decided to take a research problem which should be a hotbed of current research and which will also provide some significant solution to our society newline