Tunable and miniaturized RF components with nanocomposite and nanolayered dielectrics

Nanocomposite and nanolayered dielectrics provide new avenues to enhance the performance of RF and power components. They enable engineering of properties such as permeability, permittivity, frequency-and temperature-stability, and tunability, along with low loss, to miniaturize next-generation multiband RF modules that require higher functional density and improved performance. This paper demonstrates two such advances in nanodielectrics: 1.) Magnetic nanocomposites for miniaturization of antennas, metamaterials and other RF components, 2.) Nanolayered stack dielectrics for tunable RF components with temperature- and frequency-stability and low loss. The materials design, synthesis, processing and characterization to demonstrate the superior properties are presented.