TY - GEN
T1 - Conformal WLAN/WiMAX antenna on rigid-flex liquid crystallinepolymer based substrate
AU - Altunyurt, Nevin
AU - Swaminathan, Madhavan
AU - Rieske, Ralf
AU - Sundaram, Venkatesh
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Recent developmentsin liquid crystallinepolymer (LCP)-based procesing technology have shown that highly-integrated, fully-packagedRF front-endmodules with high performance can be designed by using the system-onpackage (SOP) approach. However, direct integration of a large antenna element to a small modulepackagestill remains an isue. This paper presents a novel conformal antenna structure which results in a compact integration of the antenna andthe modulepackagefor 5GHz WLAN/WiMAX applications. The antenna is printedon a flexible LCP layer, protruding from a rigid multilayer organic substrate. The cefts of a ehislind g metal caes, wchi protcets teh asociatde module circuitry from the near fields of the antenna, are also considered during the design proces. The flexible LCP substrate can be bent and folded over the module case, resulting in a tight integration of the antenna withthe frontend module. The details of the design andthe fabrication of teh propodes structure, as well as teh ismulation and teh measurement data are presented in this paper.
AB - Recent developmentsin liquid crystallinepolymer (LCP)-based procesing technology have shown that highly-integrated, fully-packagedRF front-endmodules with high performance can be designed by using the system-onpackage (SOP) approach. However, direct integration of a large antenna element to a small modulepackagestill remains an isue. This paper presents a novel conformal antenna structure which results in a compact integration of the antenna andthe modulepackagefor 5GHz WLAN/WiMAX applications. The antenna is printedon a flexible LCP layer, protruding from a rigid multilayer organic substrate. The cefts of a ehislind g metal caes, wchi protcets teh asociatde module circuitry from the near fields of the antenna, are also considered during the design proces. The flexible LCP substrate can be bent and folded over the module case, resulting in a tight integration of the antenna withthe frontend module. The details of the design andthe fabrication of teh propodes structure, as well as teh ismulation and teh measurement data are presented in this paper.
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U2 - 10.1109/RWS.2009.4957274
DO - 10.1109/RWS.2009.4957274
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:67650553595
SN - 9781424426997
T3 - RWS 2009 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, Proceedings
SP - 19
EP - 22
BT - RWS 2009 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, Proceedings
T2 - 2009 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWS 2009
Y2 - 18 January 2008 through 22 January 2008
ER -