Title :
Material Selection of LTCC Based Microstrip Patch Antenna Substrate Using Ashby´s Approach
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Birla Inst. of Technol. & Sci., Pilani, India
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;
Conference_Titel :
Computer, Consumer and Control (IS3C), 2014 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Taichung
DOI :
10.1109/IS3C.2014.266
