28-01-2021 | AVX | Subs & Systems
AVX Corporation no offers a new series of embedded Wi-Fi antennas to meet steadily increasing cross-market demand for smaller and thinner wireless products with excellent signal sensitivity. The new W Series Embedded Wi-Fi Antennas provide a broad range of standard solutions with ultraminiature form factors, PCB or FPC antenna technologies able to support single- and dual-band operating frequencies up to 6GHz, performance-enhancing foam coatings, and multiple mounting options to facilitate maximum design flexibility, easy implementation, quicker time-to-market, and reliable, well-matched performance for exceptional network coverage and high-speed data rates in wireless applications stretching across the commercial, agricultural, consumer, computing, medical, industrial, and telecommunications markets.
“Our new W Series Embedded Wi-Fi Antennas are specially designed to meet the needs of today’s wireless product designers, who are contending with steadily increasing cross-market demand for miniaturised devices and systems that deliver high-reliability mobile connectivity with superior signal sensitivity, exceptional network coverage, and ever-higher data rates to satisfy widespread consumer demand for faster uploads and downloads and higher-quality mobile streaming,” said Houda Rais, RF product manager for AVX’s EMEA marketing division. “Available in a wide range of standard solutions tested and proven to provide reliable, well-matched performance over a wide frequency band, the new ultraminiature W Series antennas proactively address an array of individual application requirements to ease and hasten both design-in and time-to-market. In addition, both semi- and fully-custom designs are available upon request to address any potential outliers.”
The new series is composed of three families of embedded Wi-Fi antennas: the W1, W2, and W3 Families, all of which weigh only 0.3g, measuring just 0.4mm in height, supporting three PCB/FPC thicknesses (0.1mm, 0.4mm, and 0.8mm), exhibit 50Ohm unbalanced feed-point impedance, and meet the latest RoHS directives. All three families are offered with FPC or PCB antenna technologies, with three tuning options (tuning on plastic wall, tuning for foam on plastic wall, and tuning with ribs), three adhesive mounting options for compatibility with FPC, PCB, or PCB+ foam materials, and three standard cable lengths (50mm, 100mm, and 150mm) and diameters (0.81mm, 1.13mm, and 1.37mm) with black or grey cable jackets, and three standard connector options: U.FL, W.FL, or MHF4 connectors in down, up, left, or right orientations regarding PCB silkscreen printing. They are also offered without connectors, without adhesive, and with an optional ferrite bead.
