AVX Develops Thin-Film Capacitor Series That Improves Efficiency of Cellular Handset Antennas
June 07 2011 - 10:25AM
Business Wire
AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer of advanced passive
components and interconnect solutions, has expanded its thin-film
Accu-P® Series capacitors to provide ultra-tight capacitance
tolerance versions ideal for antenna matching in cellular handsets.
The new Accu-P Series capacitors are designed with high purity
electrodes and a low-K dielectric to provide low and repeatable ESR
values, as well as high breakdown voltage, high insulation
resistance, and low losses at frequencies up to 40GHz. The design
also features tight dimensional control for uniform, stable and
repeatable frequency characteristics.
Antenna efficiency quantifies the resistive loss of the antenna
in terms of the proportion of power that is actually radiated,
versus the power that is first delivered to it. In order to
increase efficiency, it is necessary to match the antenna to the
source resistance. AVX provides tight tolerance capacitors and
inductors with any requested standard and non-standard value
specifically for implementing the matching circuit. Using the
closest standard parts instead of the non-standard values will
significantly change the matching quality.
“Applying thin-film technology to the manufacture of capacitors
has enabled the development of components where both electrical and
physical properties can be tightly controlled. The Accu-P Series
capacitors are the ideal component for realizing the capacitive
load due to the repeatability of their RF performance, meaning the
device provides repeatable impedance at a given frequency from
batch to batch and within a batch,” said Leo Talalaevsky, marketing
manager at AVX.
Special ultra-tight tolerance antenna matching engineering kits
are available upon request.
For more information contact AVX at One AVX Boulevard, Fountain
Inn, S.C. 29644; by calling 864-967-9304; or on the Web at
www.avx.com.
About AVX
AVX Corporation is a leading international supplier of
electronic passive components and interconnect solutions with 24
manufacturing and customer support facilities in 15 countries
around the world. AVX offers a broad range of devices including
capacitors, resistors, filters, timing and circuit protection
devices and connectors. The company is publicly traded on the New
York Stock Exchange (NYSE:AVX).
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