Flexible transparent antennas: Advancements, challenges, and prospects

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dc.contributor.authorSayem, Abu Sadat Md.
dc.contributor.authorLalbakhsh, Ali
dc.contributor.authorEsselle, Karu P.
dc.contributor.authorBuckley, John L.
dc.contributor.authorO'Flynn, Brendan
dc.contributor.authorSimorangkir, Roy B. V. B.
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.contributor.funderEnterprise Irelanden
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Regional Development Funden
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-28T15:11:08Z
dc.date.available2022-09-28T15:11:08Z
dc.date.issued2022-09-15
dc.date.updated2022-09-28T11:29:52Z
dc.description.abstractOptically transparent electronic devices have attracted enormous interests in recent years. The development of transparent electronics emerges a lot of new industrial applications in variety of fields, such as displays, glasses, solar panels, satellite communications, terrestrial communications, integrated circuits, and sensors where optical transparency is required for unobtrusive placement of electronic devices on the surface. Over the last couple of years, there have been notable advancements in the development of transparent wireless electronics due to the emerge of new materials and fabrication technologies. Among transparent electronic devices, transparent antennas attract tremendous interests due to their widespread applications in healthcare industry, security sector, defence, sports, smart city, Internet of Things (IoTs) and many more. Many of these applications require antennas that are concurrently transparent and flexible. A transparent and flexible antenna can be easily integrated with displays, windows, solar cells and optoelectronic modules, thus, reducing the space in the integrated circuits. However, still the development of flexible-transparent electronics is associated with some challenges which continue to impede the progress of this emerging field. Among them are the contradictory relationship between the electrical conductivity and optical transparency of the transparent conductors, costly and complex processing of the transparent materials and unavailability of the appropriate materials. In this paper, we discuss current advancements in the development of flexible transparent antennas, including potential applications, various enabling materials and manufacturing approaches, technical hurdles, as well as prospects.en
dc.description.sponsorshipEnterprise Ireland (Grant EIDT20180291-A); Science Foundation Ireland (SFI/16/RC/3835)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationSayem, A. S. M., Lalbakhsh, A., Esselle, K. P., Buckley, J. L., O'Flynn, B. and Simorangkir, R. B. V. B. (2022) 'Flexible transparent antennas: Advancements, challenges, and prospects', IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 3, pp. 1109-1133. doi: 10.1109/OJAP.2022.3206909en
dc.identifier.doi10.1109/OJAP.2022.3206909en
dc.identifier.endpage1133en
dc.identifier.issn2637-6431
dc.identifier.journaltitleIEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagationen
dc.identifier.startpage1109en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/13693
dc.identifier.volume3en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)en
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Research Centres/13/RC/2077/IE/CONNECT: The Centre for Future Networks & Communications/en
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Research Centres/12/RC/2289/IE/INSIGHT - Irelands Big Data and Analytics Research Centre/en
dc.rights© 2022, the Authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. For more information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectAntennaen
dc.subjectCompositeen
dc.subjectConductive-fabricen
dc.subjectConductive-polymeren
dc.subjectFlexibleen
dc.subjectReconfigurableen
dc.subjectTransparenten
dc.titleFlexible transparent antennas: Advancements, challenges, and prospectsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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