Electrical Characterization of Pandanus Atrocarpus as a New Flexible Organic-based Substrate: A Preliminary Studies

The purpose of this study was to investigate potential the electrical characterization of mengkuang plants, scientifically named Pandanus Atrocarpus (PA), as a new flexible organic-based substrate in microwave communications. Moreover, there is a lack of published studies focusing on the organic-based dielectric substrates for flexible patch antennas. In this work, preliminary studies were conducted to investigate the utility of the dielectric properties of PA as a new organicbased substrate i.e. dielectric constant and tangent loss value are the most important elements for designing a patch antenna. The four PA samples were prepared based on the difference in drying time under the sun to measure the dielectric properties. These preliminary results show that the electrical characteristics of PA were investigated utilizing the PNA network analyzer and its specialized measuring instruments. This paper presents and discusses all of the experimental results.