Laird (London, UK) plans to introduce the industry’s first adhesive-backed flexible antenna designed to be used
Source: Laird directly on metal surfaces. The patented antenna is about the size and thickness of a quarter, and is ideal for wirelessly connecting everything from household appliances and automated equipment to medical devices and millions of other items.
The mFlexPIFA is based on a Planer Inverted-F Antenna (PIFA) structure comprised of a Mylar antenna element with a foam core, resulting in a low profile, flexible antenna.
It can be mounted in a range of embedded and external applications with metal surfaces and enclosures, and is available in a 2.4 GHz version for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Thread and general ISM applications. It is also certified for use in selected Laird Bluetooth and Wi-Fi modules.
The mFlexPIFA enables the antenna to be placed directly onto metal surfaces without detuning the antenna, which until now has been a major challenge faced by product designers and original equipment manufacturers. It also can be used on curved—concave or convex—metal surfaces to provide greater flexibility in design and superior antenna gain and performance.
