New Ultraminiature W Series Embedded Wi-Fi Antennas

Designed to provide superior network coverage in an extensive range of cross-market wireless applications, the new ultraminiature W Series Embedded Wi-Fi Antennas are available in several standard single- & dual-band designs with PCB or FPC antenna technologies, performance-enhancing foam coatings, & various mounting options

AVX, a leading manufacturer and supplier of advanced electronic components and interconnect, sensor, control, and antenna solutions, released a new series of embedded Wi-Fi antennas designed to satisfy steadily increasing cross-market demand for smaller and thinner wireless products with superior signal sensitivity.

W Series

The new W Series Embedded Wi-Fi Antennas offer a wide range of standard solutions with ultraminiature form factors, PCB or FPC antenna technologies capable of supporting single- and dual-band operating frequencies up to 6GHz, performance-enhancing foam coatings, and various mounting options to enable maximum design flexibility, easy implementation, quicker time-to-market, and reliable, well-matched performance for exceptional network coverage and high-speed data rates in wireless applications extending across the agricultural, commercial, consumer, computing, industrial, medical, and telecommunications markets.

W Series antenna options include support for 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz frequency bands, integrated foam coatings on component backsides to minimize antenna detuning on various surfaces, several different mounting adhesives to ensure material compatibility and enable maximum placement flexibility, and various cable lengths, diameters, colors, and connectors.

Applications Include

• Wireless gateways
• Access points
• Routers & Large area networks (WLANs)
• Smart home systems
• Industrial machine-to-machine (M2M) communications
• Digital signage
• Other cross-market devices and equipment that employ Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and ZigBee communications protocols.

AVX Comment

“Our new W Series Embedded Wi-Fi Antennas are especially designed to meet the needs of today’s wireless product designers, who are contending with steadily increasing cross-market demand for miniaturized devices and systems that deliver high-reliability mobile connectivity with superior signal sensitivity, exceptional network coverage, and ever-higher data rates to satisfy widespread consumer demand for faster uploads and downloads and higher-quality mobile streaming,”

"Available in a wide range of standard solutions tested and proven to provide reliable, well-matched performance over a wide frequency band, the new ultraminiature W Series antennas proactively address an array of individual application requirements to ease and hasten both design-in and time-to-market. In addition, both semi- and fully-custom designs are available upon request to address any potential outliers.”

AVX W Series Families

AVX’s new W Series is comprised of three families of embedded Wi-Fi antennas: the W1, W2, and W3 Families, all of which weigh just 0.3g, measure just 0.4mm in height, support three PCB/FPC thicknesses (0.1mm, 0.4mm, and 0.8mm), exhibit 50Ω unbalanced feed-point impedance, and comply with the latest RoHS directives.

All three families are available with FPC or PCB antenna technologies, three tuning options (tuning on plastic wall, tuning for foam on plastic wall, and tuning with ribs), three adhesive mounting options for compatibility with FPC, PCB, or PCB+ foam materials, three standard cable lengths (50mm, 100mm, and 150mm) and diameters (0.81mm, 1.13mm, and 1.37mm) with black or gray cable jackets, and three standard connector options: U.FL, W.FL, or MHF4 connectors in down, up, left, or right orientations with respect to PCB silkscreen printing.

They are also available without adhesive, without connectors, and with an optional ferrite bead.

Current Lead-time

Lead-time for the new W Series Embedded Wi-Fi Antennas is currently seven weeks. Standard packaging is in individual PE bags, and the antennas are also supported by clear documentation and, when needed, the expertise of RF engineers well experienced in integrating antennas into an array of wireless devices.

A Little about DMTL & AVX

DMTL have enjoyed an extremely close and successful relationship with AVX for over 30 years.

Commencing as a direct customer in 1988, DMTL was then appointed as AVX UK Design Distributor in 1996.

Of note is the fact that for the last 5 years, DMTL has continued, by some margin, to be AVX’s Top Design Distributor for the UK, by value, each year.. This being a clear indicator of the strength of AVX’s technical support, in their partnership with DMTL.