High-Quality-Factor AlON Transparent Ceramics for 5 GHz Wi-Fi Aesthetically Decorative Antennas
Chao Du, Di Zhou, Shu‐Zhao Hao, Hetuo Chen, Jian Zhang, Shi‐Kuan Sun, Tao Zhou, Mingzhao Dang, Shaofei Wang, Haiwen Liu, Long Li, Zhuo Xu
Abstract
Transparent material has been widely used in product design and has seen a large increase in its use. In this paper, a kind of aesthetically decorative 5 GHz Wi-Fi dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) of aluminum oxynitride (AlON) transparent ceramic has been designed. High-quality-factor AlON transparent dielectric ceramics were fabricated by presintering at 1780 °C and further cold isostatic pressing (CIP) under a 200 MPa argon atmosphere. For a 9.0 mm thick specimen, the in-line light transmittance reached 83%. Optimum dielectric constant (εr = 9.32), quality factor (Qf = 47 960) and temperature coefficient (TCF = −51.7 ppm/°C) was achieved in the AlON transparent ceramic by cold isostatic pressing. As a result, the proposed aesthetically decorative DRA can achieve an impedance bandwidth of 32% (4.48–6.19 GHz), a high radiation efficiency of 85%, and a low cross-polarization discrimination (XPD) of −30 dB. To achieve a broad bandwidth, the proposed antenna was excited in its dominant TE111x mode and higher-order TE113x mode. The proposed antenna is thus an excellent candidate for an indoor decoration Wi-Fi antenna.