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Ethertronics Inc. has expanded its Savvi ceramic antenna product line with new high-performance embedded antennas. These compact antennas are designed to address the challenge of incorporating multiple functions into portable devices, and include a compact Bluetooth antenna, wireless local area network (WLAN) antenna, WiMAX antenna and combination PCS/WiMAX antenna.

Ethertronics’ antennas contain the company’s patented Isolated Magnetic Dipole (IMD) technology that makes them immune to frequency shifts because of their industry-leading high-isolation characteristics.

The smallest of the new antennas, the compact Bluetooth antenna measures a mere 5 x 3 x 1.3 mm and is ideal for integration into small, handheld portable devices. The WLAN ceramic antenna operates at 2.4-2.5 and 4.9-5.8 GHz frequency bands and measures 7 x 4 x 1.3mm. This antenna is ideal for notebooks and RF modules and addresses the growing demand for WLAN functions in an array of electronics devices. The third addition to the Savvi line is a WiMAX antenna that operates on either the 2.3-, 2.5- or 3.5 GHz frequency bands and measures at 14 x 4x 1.3 mm.

Focusing on the growing convergence trend, the ceramic WiMAX antenna is an ideal solution for multifunctioning handsets. The final addition to the line is a diversity PCS/WiMAX combination antenna that measures 9.6 x 3 x 1.3 mm and operates on the 1.93-1.99 and 2.5-2.7 GHz frequency bands.

Given Ethertronics antennas’ high-isolation characteristics, every antenna in the Savvi line has the ability to co-locate with the main antenna without experiencing frequency shift and RF interruption, which can ultimately hinder performance and reception. In addition, the IMD technology enables Ethertronics’ ceramic antennas to have equivalent performance specifications to that of metal antennas.

This past September, Ethertronics announced the initial launch of the Savvi Ceramic Antenna product line that included a Bluetooth-only and a novel GPS/Bluetooth combination antenna. All of these antennas are available now.