Development of a Metal Coated Conformal Periodic Geometry for Electromagnetic Application

Abstract:

Conformal metasurfaces are even more diffused in different fields from optics to electromagnetics. Advanced applications, as making object invisible to incident fields also known as cloaking, require high precision realizations, since the resonant answer of the system is very sensitive to geometry details. Practical realizations are provocative, since material characteristics and mechanical restrictions should also be considered. Multi- and inter-disciplinary interactions are mandatory to overcome such technological challenges. Due to its excellent esthetic characteristics, good physical and mechanical properties, Aluminium is widely used for deposition on different substrates: physical and chemical vapor depositions are very suitable for micro-metallization process and for the realization of multilayered structures. This paper presents some results about the behavior of a cylindrical-shape system realized by Al films deposition on flexible, polymeric organosilicon substrate.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1114)
• Pages: 224-228
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1114.224
• Online since: July 2015
• Authors: Ildiko Peter*, Ladislau Matekovits, Mario Rosso
• Keywords: Aluminium, Coating, Polymer, SAXS, XRD

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