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A highly conformable, foldable, and deployable antenna and its 2×2 array configuration are presented. The antenna is made lightweight by combining copper-cladded polyimide film (CCPF), Mylar transparent film, and PF-4 foam strips. A single conformable and foldable antenna (SCFA) at L-band is presented first, which can be completely conformed to a cylinder with radius Rc=40 mm. The SCFA is used to design a 2×2 array, which is completely foldable to 360°. The antenna provides an impedance bandwidth from 1.20−1.32GHz(9.7%), isolation better than 20 dB between the antenna elements, and a gain of 14.1 dBi at 1.26 GHz. The antenna array is measured for the flat case and conformed to cylinders of radius 200 mm,160 mm, and 150 mm.

Researcher/Author: 

Dr. Mohammad Ameen and Prof Koen Mouthaan

Published in: 2025 19th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)

Added to IEEE Xplore, 21 May 2025

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DOI:  10.23919/EuCAP63536.2025.11000048