Compact parylene-c-coated flexible antenna for WLAN and upper-band UWB applications

Author

Yijie Qiu ; Yei Hwan Jung ; Subin Lee ; Ting-Yen Shih ; Juhwan Lee ; Yue Hang Xu ; Ruimin Xu ; Weigan Lin ; Behdad, Nader ; Zhenqiang Ma

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

Volume

50

Issue

24

fYear

2014

fDate

11 20 2014

Firstpage

1782

Lastpage

1784

Abstract

A compact broadband flexible antenna is proposed for applications in wireless local area network (WLAN) and upper ultra-wideband (UWB) systems, which can operate in the bandwidths of 2.4-2.484 GHz and 3.5-10.6 GHz with a reflection coefficient of <;-10 dB. The presented antenna coated with bio-compatible ultra-thin parylene-c is fabricated on a thin polyimide substrate with a thickness of 127 μm. The characteristics of the proposed antenna are measured under bending and flat conditions. The measured results showed that the antenna is suitable for integration with flexible electronic devices.

Keywords

broadband antennas; reflection; ultra wideband antennas; wireless LAN; WLAN; bandwidth 2.4 GHz to 2.484 GHz; bandwidth 3.5 GHz to 10.6 GHz; bio-compatible ultra-thin parylene-c; compact broadband flexible antenna; compact parylene-c-coated flexible antenna; flexible electronic devices; reflection coefficient; thin polyimide substrate; upper ultra-wideband system; upper-band UWB; wireless local area network;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el.2014.3647

Filename

6968731