PMID- 25981704
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150728
LR  - 20150528
IS  - 1463-9084 (Electronic)
IS  - 1463-9076 (Linking)
VI  - 17
IP  - 22
DP  - 2015 Jun 14
TI  - Dielectric, thermal and mechanical properties of zirconium silicate reinforced 
      high density polyethylene composites for antenna applications.
PG  - 14943-50
LID - 10.1039/c5cp01242b [doi]
AB  - A low cost and low dielectric loss zirconium silicate (ZrSiO4) reinforced HDPE 
      (high-density polyethylene) composite has been developed for antenna 
      applications. The 0-3 type composite is prepared by dispersing ZrSiO4 fillers for 
      various volume fractions (0.1 to 0.5) in the HDPE matrix by the melt mixing 
      process. The composite shows good microwave dielectric properties with a relative 
      permittivity of 5.6 and a dielectric loss of 0.003 at 5 GHz at the maximum filler 
      loading of 0.5 volume fraction. The composite exhibits low water absorption, 
      excellent thermal and mechanical properties. It shows a water absorption of 0.03 
      wt%, a coefficient of thermal expansion of 70 ppm per  degrees C and a room temperature 
      thermal conductivity of 2.4 W mK(-1). The composite shows a tensile strength of 
      22 MPa and a microhardness of 13.9 kg mm(-2) for the filler loading of 0.5 volume 
      fraction. The HDPE-ZrSiO4 composites show good dielectric, thermal and mechanical 
      properties suitable for microwave soft substrate applications. A microstrip patch 
      antenna is designed and fabricated using the HDPE-0.5 volume fraction ZrSiO4 
      substrate and the antenna parameters are investigated.
FAU - Varghese, Jobin
AU  - Varghese J
AD  - Functional Materials, Materials Science and Technology Division, CSIR-NIIST, 
      Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. mailadils@yahoo.com.
FAU - Nair, Dinesh Raghavan
AU  - Nair DR
FAU - Mohanan, Pezholil
AU  - Mohanan P
FAU - Sebastian, Mailadil Thomas
AU  - Sebastian MT
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Phys Chem Chem Phys
JT  - Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
JID - 100888160
EDAT- 2015/05/20 06:00
MHDA- 2015/05/20 06:01
CRDT- 2015/05/19 06:00
PHST- 2015/05/19 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/05/20 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/05/20 06:01 [medline]
AID - 10.1039/c5cp01242b [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2015 Jun 14;17(22):14943-50. doi: 10.1039/c5cp01242b.