TAGRA 2025

Nanomaterials are materials in the nanometer scale from 1 to 100 nm. Their numerous advantages which includes miniaturization and enhanced energy efficiency has made them popular to be deployed in many industrial applications including electronics, medicine, energy, environment, materials and consumer products. In this paper, our focus will be how we can use carbon based nanomaterials in microwave devices such as antenna. Carbon based nanomaterials are used in microstrip patch antennas to create conductive films for the patch, ground plane or feedline so as to enhance the bandwidth and return loss. Recent advances in carbon nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and other green carbon nanomaterials from organic sources such as rice husk and carbon charcoal have shown excellent results when deployed in electronics, bioelectronics, optoelectronics and photonic applications. In this paper we will present some case studies on development of microstrip patch antenna applications that proved to show excellent results with improved antenna performance parameters.