This paper investigates the performance of a passive thin metallic object
containing micro-sized gaps exposed to a plane wave excitation. This work has potential
applications for emerging antenna fabrication techniques where the conducting sections are
made from discrete metallic sections. This includes antennas composed from nanomaterials
and conventional inkjet printed antennas. Electromagnetic simulations showed metallic
sections separated by a micro-sized gap were found to capacitively couple. The coupling
can be enhanced by reducing the size of the gap, increasing the width of the metallic object
or by filling the gap with a permittivity greater than unity. It should be noted that the DC value
of parallel plate capacitor is not strictly valid at radiofrequencies – however, this paper shows
that the DC value of capacitance is a reasonable approximation and is useful to understand
the behavior