At Embedded World North America, KYOCERA AVX introduced to the market the cutting-edge new surface-mount, on-ground, ultra-wideband (UWB) LDS Tulip antenna (9002305L0-L01K) for 6.0–8.5GHz applications.
Stock, including samples, was just made available through DigiKey and Mouser, despite being introduced at Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany, on April 9, 2024, where it was chosen as the recipient of a 2024 Electronics Specifier Electronics Excellence Award by an independent judging panel of renowned electronics specialists and industry thought leaders.
Laser direct structuring (LDS) technology is used in the manufacturing of the innovative new UWB LDS Tulip antenna. Through this method, KYOCERA AVX can produce antennas that offer a multitude of benefits, such as significant weight and space savings, unmatched precision and accuracy, and optimal performance, as well as conductive traces on intricate 3D structures with distinctive patterns.
The new UWB LDS Tulip antenna, which has an omnidirectional radiation pattern with exceptional 360° phase stability, constant group delay, and linear polarization, serves as an on-board and on-ground antenna as a result. These features all contribute to the accuracy of low-energy, short-range, and high-bandwidth UWB systems and are essential for signal reconstruction.
It maximizes the accuracy of device localization in space, ensures secure communication with the device, and has superior group delay and phase distribution characteristics. These improvements translate into improved system-level services, such as angle of arrival (AoA) and time of flight (ToF).
Moreover, because of UWB LDS Tulip antenna on-ground capabilities, it may be positioned anywhere on a printed circuit board (PCB), including over metal and in the middle of the board.
This allows for greater design flexibility than with strictly off-ground antennas, which are situated around the edges of PCBs because they need ground clearance.
The 6.40 x 6.40 x 5.58 mm, ~0.1 g in weight, and small form factor of the UWB LDS Tulip antenna allow SMT pick-and-place construction.
Additionally, it complies with the most recent versions of the RoHS and REACH regulations and is optimized for UWB applications operating between 6.0 and 8.5 GHz, including telematics and other Internet of Things (IoT) applications, as well as smart city, mobility, retail, asset tracking, healthcare, fitness, security, and handheld operations.
The UWB LDS Tulip antenna typically shows 2ns maximum group delay, 4.3dBi peak gain, 2W continuous wave (CW) power handling, and 61% average efficiency when mounted on a 40 x 40mm PCB.
The antenna is also patented and produced in South Korea.
Key Comments
“LDS technology allowed us to develop a compact ultra-wideband antenna with a constant phase that delivers unparallelled accuracy in UWB systems and cannot be replicated by traditional stamped metal or flexible printed circuit antennas,” said Carmen Redondo, Director of Global Marketing for Antennas at KYOCERA AVX. “The ability to integrate complex mechanical designs in miniature 3D shapes allows us to optimize antenna size, performance, and emissions in even extremely small and oddly shaped designs, satisfy customer and regulatory specifications more easily, and help customers in various segments of the rapidly expanding smart technology industry improve time-to-market.”
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