Demonstration of negative refractive index with low-cost inkjet-printed microwave metamaterials

2018-01-01
We present low-cost fabrications of inkjet-printed metamaterials that are resonating at microwave frequencies. A very low-cost setup involving commercial desktop printers loaded with silver-based inks is constructed and used to fabricate the metamaterials. We show that, despite the challenges in the low-cost fabrication processes, successful prints, and metamaterial samples can be obtained. A composite metamaterial design, which possesses a bandlimited transparency due to the induced negative refractive index, is fabricated and tested to demonstrate the feasibility of low-cost metamaterials with relatively complex geometries involving three-dimensional arrangements.
MICROWAVE AND OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY LETTERS

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Citation Formats
H. İbili and Ö. S. Ergül, “Demonstration of negative refractive index with low-cost inkjet-printed microwave metamaterials,” MICROWAVE AND OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, pp. 187–191, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41755.