Material Selection of LTCC Based Microstrip Patch Antenna Substrate Using Ashby´s Approach

Author

Gupta, Neeraj

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Birla Inst. of Technol. & Sci., Pilani, India

fYear

2014

fDate

10-12 June 2014

Firstpage

1018

Lastpage

1021

Abstract

In this paper, different possible low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) materials for micro strip patch antenna substrates and their properties like, permittivity, dielectric loss, quality factor (Q-factor), temperature coefficient of the resonant frequency are taken into consideration and Ashby´s approach is applied and based on the performance indices and material indices, material selection chart is plotted. The selection chart shows that Dupont-951 is the best material for substrate application out of all possible candidates.

Keywords

ceramics; microstrip antennas; Ashby approach; Dupont-951; LTCC material selection chart; Q-factor; antenna permittivity; dielectric loss; low temperature co-fired ceramic material index; microstrip patch antenna substrate; performance index; quality factor; resonant frequency; temperature coefficient; Bandwidth; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Substrates; Ashby Approach; Low temperature Co-fired Ceramics (LTCC); Material Selection; Patch Antenna; Wireless Communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer, Consumer and Control (IS3C), 2014 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Taichung

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IS3C.2014.266

Filename

6846058