Conformal Printing of Electrically Small Antennas on Three‐Dimensional Surfaces

J. J. Adams ,[+] Prof. J. T. Bernhard Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801, USA E-mail: jbernhar@illinois.edu Dr. E. B. Duoss ,[+,++] T. F. Malkowski ,[+] Dr. B. Y. Ahn , Prof. J. A. Lewis Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 USA E-mail: jalewis@illinois.edu Dr. M. J. Motala , Prof. R. G. Nuzzo Department of Chemistry University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA [+] These authors contributed equally to this work. [++] Presently at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Center for Microand NanoTechnology, Livermore, CA 94550 USA

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