Design and Fabrication of Low-Cost Inkjet-Printed Metamaterials

2017-09-27
We consider three-dimensional metamaterials involving split-ring resonators (SRRs) that are produced by using low-cost inkjet printing. Following their three-dimensional computational simulations, sensitivity analysis is applied on SRR arrays in order to evaluate their tolerance to various fabrication errors. We use silver-based inks in standard commercial printers in order to fabricate SRRs and their arrays. Measurements demonstrate the feasibility of fabricating very low-cost three-dimensional metamaterials using simple inkjet printing.

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Citation Formats
H. İbili and Ö. S. Ergül, “Design and Fabrication of Low-Cost Inkjet-Printed Metamaterials,” 2017, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/54028.