TY - GEN
T1 - Conformal antennas on liquid crystalline polymer substrates for consumer applications
AU - Altunyurt, Nevin
AU - Swaminathan, Madhavan
AU - Sundaram, Venkatesh
AU - White, George
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Recent developments in Liquid Crystalline Polymer (LCP) based processing technology showed that highly integrated, fully packaged RF front-end modules with high performance can be accomplished by using System-on-Package (SOP) approach. This paper presents the design of conformal monopole antennas on a very thin layer of flexible LCP, which can be fabricated as one of the layers in a multilayer LCP based substrate. The antennas can be bent, folded and rolled resulting in a compact design and integration of the antenna with the RF module package. The details of the fabrication and design of the antennas as well as the simulation and measurement data are presented in this paper. A method to increase the peak gain of the antenna is also proposed. Finally, the design of a 2.4/5.2 GHz dual band WLAN antenna with the RF-module package is discussed in the paper.
AB - Recent developments in Liquid Crystalline Polymer (LCP) based processing technology showed that highly integrated, fully packaged RF front-end modules with high performance can be accomplished by using System-on-Package (SOP) approach. This paper presents the design of conformal monopole antennas on a very thin layer of flexible LCP, which can be fabricated as one of the layers in a multilayer LCP based substrate. The antennas can be bent, folded and rolled resulting in a compact design and integration of the antenna with the RF module package. The details of the fabrication and design of the antennas as well as the simulation and measurement data are presented in this paper. A method to increase the peak gain of the antenna is also proposed. Finally, the design of a 2.4/5.2 GHz dual band WLAN antenna with the RF-module package is discussed in the paper.
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U2 - 10.1109/APMC.2007.4554986
DO - 10.1109/APMC.2007.4554986
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:52149120306
SN - 1424407494
SN - 9781424407491
T3 - Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC
BT - 2007 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC
T2 - Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, APMC 2007
Y2 - 11 December 2007 through 14 December 2007
ER -