Direct Transfer Patterning of Electrically Small Antennas onto Three-Dimensionally Contoured Substrates

1. Carl Pfeiffer¹, 
2. Xin Xu², 
3. Stephen R. Forrest^3,*, 
4. Anthony Grbic^1,*

Article first published online: 31 JAN 2012

DOI: 10.1002/adma.201104290

A direct transfer patterningprocess is presented that allows metallic patterns to be stamped onto a contoured substrate. This process was used to make some of the most efficient electrically small antennas to date, while maintaining bandwidths approaching the physical limit.