AVX Releases a New Embedded, Universal Broadband, LTE/LPWA Antenna for CAT-M & NB-IoT Applications
September 08 2020 - 9:30AM
AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer and supplier of advanced
electronic components and interconnect, sensor, control, and
antenna solutions, released a new embedded, universal broadband,
LTE/LPWA antenna (1004795) as a standard, off-the-shelf solution
designed for maximum versatility. Compatible with all major
worldwide wireless carriers and a variety of common communications
protocols, the new antennas meet steadily increasing cross-market
demand for smaller and thinner antennas with high-reliability,
ultra-wideband performance capabilities and help OEMs reduce both
costs and time-to-market by eliminating engineering fees and
extended cycles times associated with custom solutions.
The new universal broadband antennas have a small, low-profile,
FR4 form factor that employs patented Isolated Magnetic DipoleTM
(IMD) technology to achieve reduced ground plane size requirements
and a small keep-out area for greater design flexibility,
independent tuning capabilities for application-specific
performance optimization, and high performance and isolation
characteristics for better connectivity and minimal interference.
The antennas also exhibit high-efficiency, high gain, and high
isolation characteristics from 600–2,700MHz and, although they are
ideally suited for use in applications that leverage CAT-M and
Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) communication protocols — including
wearables, smart meters, medical, industrial, and IoT devices,
machine-to-machine and FirstNet communications systems,
point-of-sale terminals, tracking systems, and automotive
electronics — they also support Sigfox, LoRa, Cellular LPWA, RPMA,
and Broadband LTE (OCTA-BAND) protocols.
The extremely versatile, high-performance antennas measure just
36.0mm (±0.3mm) long, 9.0mm (±0.2mm) wide, and 3.2mm (±0.3mm) high,
weigh 2.1g, and support low-band frequencies extending from
600–1,000MHz, high-band frequencies extending from 1,700–2,200MHz,
and ultra-high-band frequencies extending from 2,500–2,700MHz. They
are also RoHS compliant and available in a mirrored version
(1004796) for even greater design flexibility and with optional
evaluation boards for easy, efficient testing. Typical performance
characteristics for the standard (1004795) antenna on a 125mm x
45mm PCB include linear polarization, 2W continuous waveform (CW)
power consumption, 50Ω unbalanced feed-point impedance, peak gain
ranging from 2.4dBi (1,710–2,220MHz) to 0.9dBi (2,500–2,700MHz),
average efficiency extending from 48% (2,500–2,700MHz) to 61%
(600–698MHz), and VSWR match spanning <5.5:1 (600–698MHz) to
<2.5:1 (1,710–2,200MHz),
“Our new embedded, universal broadband, LTE/LPWA antennas
exhibit superior versatility for off-the-shelf solutions, providing
high-reliability performance from 600–2,700MHz in an extensive
range of wireless applications within medical, industrial,
telecommunications, networking, and automotive electronics,” said
Mohammed Abu-Naim, RF product manager, AVX. “Their miniaturized FR4
form factor satisfies growing cross-market demands for size and
weight savings and leverages our patented IMD technology to offer
independent tuning capabilities for broad application-specific
performance optimization. In addition, although they are ideally
suited for CAT-M and NB-IoT applications, both the standard and
mirrored variants are compatible with several other communication
protocols and with all major worldwide wireless carriers, providing
OEMs with significant savings in terms of both cost and
time-to-market as well.”
The new SMT antennas are shipped in tape and reel packaging
compatible with automated pick-and-place processing and currently
have a nine-week lead-time.
For more information about AVX’s new embedded, universal
broadband, LTE/LPWA antennas, click here to access the datasheet.
To order, please visit the AVX Authorized Distribution Channel. For
more information about AVX’s extensive portfolio of standard and
custom antenna products, please visit
http://www.avx.com/products/antennas/ or download the AVX Antenna
Selection Guide. For implementation assistance, including best
practices for antenna tuning, please click here. For all other
inquiries, please visit www.avx.com, email inquiry@avx.com, follow
them on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram, like them on Facebook,
call 864-967-2150, or write to One AVX Boulevard, Fountain Inn,
S.C. 29644.
About AVXAVX Corporation is a leading international
manufacturer and supplier of advanced electronic components,
interconnect, sensing, control, and antenna solutions with 33
manufacturing facilities in 16 countries around the world. AVX
offers a broad range of devices including capacitors, resistors,
filters, couplers, sensors, controls, circuit protection devices,
connectors, and antennas.
- AVX511 Universal Broadband FR4 Embedded LTE Antenna PR
Mohammed Abu-Naim
AVX Corporation
(864) 962-6115
mohammed.abu-naim@avx.com
Christina Sandidge
BtB Marketing Communications
(919) 872-8172
christina.sandidge@btbmarketing.com
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