DocumentCode
3503898
Title
Experimental Study of the Effect of Paint on Embedded Automotive Antennas
Author
Pell, Brendan ; Rowe, Wayne ; Sulic, Edin ; Ghorbani, Kamran ; John, Sabu ; Gupta, Rahul ; Zhang, Kefei ; Hughes, Brian
Author_Institution
RMIT Univ., Melbourne, VIC
fYear
2008
fDate
11-14 May 2008
Firstpage
3057
Lastpage
3061
Abstract
In years have seen the advent of new types of automotive antennas, such as blade or ´shark-fin´ antennas and conformal planar roof mounted antennas. In many cases it is desirable to paint these antennas to improve the appearance of the vehicle. In this communication we present an investigation of the effect that both metallic and non-metallic two-pack polyurethane paint has on a structure radiating at approximately 1.5 GHz (GPS Ll-band), with a particular emphasis on the impedance bandwidth and radiation performance.
Keywords
automobiles; conformal antennas; paints; planar antennas; blade antennas; conformal planar roof mounted antennas; embedded automotive antennas; impedance bandwidth; radiation performance; shark-fin antennas; two-pack polyurethane paint; Aluminum; Australia; Automobiles; Automotive engineering; Blades; Chemistry; Microwave antennas; Paints; Radar antennas; Vehicles;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Vehicular Technology Conference, 2008. VTC Spring 2008. IEEE
Conference_Location
Singapore
ISSN
1550-2252
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-1644-8
Electronic_ISBN
1550-2252
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/VETECS.2008.331
Filename
4525887
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