Fabricating Metal Patterned Ceramic Substance by Tape-Casting

Abstract:

Tape-casting technology is introduced to fabricate metal-arrayes patterned ceramic substance containing periodic multilayer silver wire structure in the low dielectric constant ceramic matrix for microvave bandgap materials and left hand material application. One important advantage of the metal patterned ceramic substance comparing with the periodic structures fabricated on the printed circuit boards (PCB) using a shadow mask/etching technique is that complex multilayer structure can be designed and fabricated in the ceramic body as well as on the surface by the tape-casting process, while the shadow mask/etching technique technology can only design patterns on the surface of printed circuit boards. An Hp8720ES network analyzer was used to measure the transmission properties of the metal patterned ceramic substance. The experimental result shows some novel properties at X-band microwave frequencies. The metal patterned ceramic substance can be used in the microwave communication, such as microwave antenna.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 280-283)
• Pages: 757-758
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.280-283.757
• Online since: February 2007
• Authors: Li Feng Hao, Ji Zhou, Bo Li, Long Tu Li
• Keywords: 2D Photonic Crystals, Metal Patterned Ceramic Substance, Tape-Casting

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