A conducting-polymer patch antenna was fabricated by a screen-printing technique. Polyaniline (Pani) films of conductivity 6000 S/m, permittivity 6000 and thickness 100 μm have been used as a radiating patch. HFSS was used as a design tool to validate the experimental measurement of the Pani-patch antenna. Measured and simulated results of the resonant frequency, return loss, gain, bandwidth and radiation patterns are presented. Simulations and measurements have been performed on both copper- and Pani-antennas for comparison. Details of the design considerations, simulation and experimental results are presented and discussed.
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Rmili et al. (2005) studied this question.