Design and Assembly of Miniature Long-Term Trackers for Migrating Bats

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Publikationsdatum
2020
Sprache
English
Author
Erhardt, Stefan 
Tost, F. 
Lurz, Fabian 
Weigel, Robert 
Kölpin, Alexander orcid-logo
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/6414
Start Page
144-147
End Page
147
Article Number
9080178
Citation
GeMIC - German Microwave Conference: 9080178 (2020)
Contribution to Conference
German Microwave Conference, GeMIC 2020 
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85085020580
A miniature and light-weight logger for tracking migrating bats over several months has been developed over the last years. In this publication details about the advanced circuit design and elaborate assembly methods are presented. A RF network is optimized simulatively and experimentally that combines matching, filtering and balancing the transceivers ports to an 3/4 antenna. Subsequently, the densely populated board is assembled in our laboratories. A fixture for fast programming and testing simplifies series production of 150 loggers. Finally, the PCBs are glued to a battery and molded in durable fiber-reinforced epoxy. In summary a sensor node with the size of a 1 Eurocent coin and 2 g is produced.
Schlagworte
assembly
electronic circuits
flexible printed circuits
impedance matching