Hemispherical antennas
Portfolio
Sectorial coupled planar inverted-F antennas
- Broadband, efficient operation in a low-profile package
- IEEE 802.15.4a-2011 Channels 1 through 4
- Total efficiency > 85%
- Thickness: < 5 mm
- Optimized for broad half-power beamwidth: > 120°
- Standard PCB fabrication technology
- Facilitates integration with active electronics
- Robust performance in practical deployment scenarios
- Extremely low pulse distortion within the half-power beamwidth
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Coupled half-mode cavity-backed slot antennas
- Broadband, efficient operation in a low-profile package
- IEEE 802.15.4a-2011 Channels 2 and 3
- IEEE 802.15.4a-2011 Channels 5 and 7
- Total efficiency > 85%
- Thickness: < 5 mm
- Standard PCB fabrication technology
- Compact integration of active electronics
- Robust performance in practical deployment scenarios
- Extremely low pulse distortion within the half-power beamwidth
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Miniaturized coupled quarter-mode cavity-backed slot antennas
- Broadband, efficient operation in a low-profile package
- IEEE 802.15.4a-2011 Channels 5 and 7
- Total efficiency > 90%
- Thickness: < 6 mm
- Standard PCB fabrication technology
- Robust performance in practical deployment scenarios
- Extremely low pulse distortion within the half-power beamwidth
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State-of-the-art
Our proposed antenna offer the best-in-class perfomance in a compact footprint which enables unprecedented localization performance.
| Name | Size [mm] | Bandwidth (BW) [GHz] | Fraction BW [%] | Peak gain [dBi] | Polarization |
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| Vayyar planar dipole | 20.6 x 20.6 x 5.5 | 7.3 - 8.3 (CH9) | 12.8 | 7 | |
| UWB CBS antenna | 50 x 45 x 5 | 5.6 - 7.5 (CH5) | 29.4 | 6.9 | Linear |
| Decawave antenna | 20.5 x 30 x 2 | 5.9 - 7.5 @ -6 dB (CH5) | 23.2 @ -6 dB | 2.5 | Elliptical |
| Proposed antenna | 17.4 x 17.4 x 4.8 | 6.07 – 8.38 (CH5 & 9) | 32 | 3.62 @ 6.5 GHz 4.90 @ 8 GHz |
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