Copper Transparent Antennas on Flexible Glass by Subtractive and Semi-Additive Fabrication for Automotive Applications
Electronic Components and Technology Conference(2018)
摘要
There has been an increasing need for antennas in automotive applications, for communications applications, such as cellular, satellite radio, and the burgeoning fields of selfdriving/ networked vehicles and 5G. These applications demand alternatives to traditional vehicle antennas, including transparent antennas able to be unobtrusively mounted to vehicle windows. Flexible glass provides a high quality transparent and flexible substrate for the fabrication of these antennas, and that is amenable to low cost roll-to-roll manufacturing. Sheet scale prototype transparent antennas were fabricated in copper using etch back and semi-additive processes, with conventional processes and facilities, and using materials and processes amenable to roll-to-roll fabrication. This shows that flexible glass could be used in existing lines and facilities with little modification, in addition to roll-to-roll processing. Fabricated antennas were tested on-vehicle and show good performance, with similar gain figures for baseline solid antennas, etched transparent antennas, and semi-additive transparent antennas
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flexible electronics,mobile antennas,vehicular and wireless technologies
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