In this project, a nano material based printed patch antenna structure has been integrated with a solar panel without affecting the optical efficiency of the solar panel. The proposed prototype is having the property of both antenna and solar module functionality. A Graphene based CPW fed E-Shaped microstrip patch antenna which has a return loss of -48.43dB at resonant frequency of 2.1GHz which is best suitable for UMTS-2100 Band (2.15GHz – 2.18GHz), GSM (2.15GHz – 2.18GHz) applications is printed on the solar panel using screen printing technique. In this project, conventional copper-based antennas are replaced with graphene-based antennas due to various advantages. In this experiment, the feasibility of material based body mounting antenna structure printing method is analyzed. This proposed design model is best suitable for satellites where antennas occupy one-third of the satellite’s size. By mounting the small printed antennas on the solar panel, the space complexity of the satellite system gets reduced by one-third of its initial dimensions.

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The stack antenna technique used to improve the antenna characteristics of the printed patch antenna structures. The method of stacking varies for each material. In this work we used graphene as the radiating material. The improvement in the parameters is achieved by edge truncation and ground plane optimization techniques. The main factor to affect the stacking is the curing temperature and the heat absorbing nature of the substrate and air gap between layers. In this work we have experimented and analysed the effect of multilayer stacking on printed antenna structures and its effect on the antenna performance. The antenna is designed for 2.45 GHz ISM Band applications and the gain is more than + 5 dB. In this paper we tried to replace the copper with multilayer graphene based printed structure.