Publication: 3D-printed spherical dipole antenna integrated on small RF node
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2015
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Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
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Adams, J.J., S.C. Slimmer, J.T. Bernhard, and J.A. Lewis. 2015. “3D-Printed Spherical Dipole Antenna Integrated on Small RF Node.” Electronics Letters 51, no. 9: 661–662. doi:10.1049/el.2015.0256.
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New three-dimensional (3D) printing techniques enable the integration of an antenna directly onto the package of a small wireless sensor node. This volume-filling approach ensures near-optimal bandwidth performance of the small antenna, increasing a system’s battery life, data rate or range. Simulated results show that the fabricated spherical antenna’s bandwidth-efficiency product is more than half of the fundamental limit and radiation pattern measurements exhibit a dipole pattern with −0.7 dBi gain.
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