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7355554 Method of producing a photonic bandgap structure on a microwave device and slot type antennas employing such a structure  
The invention relates to a method of producing a photonic bandgap structure on a slot-type microwave device which is produced on a metallized substrate. According to the invention,...
7345652 Antenna system and RF signal interference abatement method  
Disclosed is an antenna system including a Luneberg Lens having a spherically shaped outer surface and a spherically shaped focal surface spaced from its outer surface with a plurality of patch...
7339539 Photonic crystal exhibiting negative refraction without requiring a negative effective index  
A periodic electromagnetic medium is disclosed that includes a surface that provides an interface with an ambient medium and a periodic structure that provides negative refraction within the medium...
7339521 Analytical instruments using a pseudorandom array of sources, such as a micro-machined mass spectrometer or monochromator  
Novel methods and structures are disclosed herein which employ pseudorandom sequences to spatially arrange multiple sources in a pseudorandom source array. The pseudorandom source array can replace...
7330161 Antenna, radio device, method of designing antenna, and method of measuring operating frequency of antenna  
An antenna comprises a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer and an LC resonance circuit. The first conductive layer has plural elements and is disposed adjacently to each other. The...
7324064 Passive anti-jamming antenna system  
System and method for improving the interference resistance of an radio frequency (RF) antenna system through passive prescreening of the RF energy incident upon the antenna. The invention...
7324065 Antenna radiation collimator structure  
An antenna radiation collimator structure is provided as including a number of resonator circuit boards oriented to form a block structure. A sheet of dielectric material is disposed between each...
7301504 Mechanical scanning feed assembly for a spherical lens antenna  
The invention includes a mechanical scanning feed and a spherical lens antenna system. The mechanical feed includes a waveguide, which has a movable wall assembly that contains a guide slot. The...
7292204 Dielectric resonator antenna with a caved well  
A dielectric resonator antenna is a dielectric resonator mounted on a feed-in/feed-out component. The dielectric resonator is a rectangular parallelepiped made of a dielectric, and has a caved well...
7280086 Reflecting antenna with 3D structure for shaping wave beams belonging to different frequency bands  
Multifrequency reflecting antenna (AR), for example for a telecommunication satellite that comprises a reflector (R) with a front face (FA) for reflecting beams of electromagnetic waves belonging...
7277065 Tunable photonic band gap structures for microwave signals  
Photonic Band Gap (PBG) structures are utilized in microwave components as filters to suppress unwanted signals because they have the ability to produce a bandstop effect at certain frequency range...
7263760 Method for making a slow-wave ridge waveguide structure  
A method of fabricating a ridge waveguide filter having a slow-wave structure. The ridge waveguide is formed of a conductive sidewall-from metallic materials and may be in the form of a hollow...
7256753 Synthesis of metamaterial ferrites for RF applications using electromagnetic bandgap structures  
By configuring a high impedance frequency selective surface (HZ-FSS) structure for the appropriate values of surface impedance (surface resistance and surface reactance), a high frequency...
7253788 Mixed-signal systems with alternating impedance electromagnetic bandgap (AI-EBG) structures for noise suppression/isolation  
Alternating impedance electromagnetic bandgap (AI-EBG) structures, systems incorporating AI-EBG structures, and methods of making AI-EBG structures, are disclosed.
7250921 Method and apparatus for multiband frequency distributed circuit with FSS  
A method and apparatus for a multiband frequency distributed circuit apparatus with FSS. The apparatus includes a circuit, a first dielectric layer, a first FSS layer, a second layer and a ground...
7245269 Adaptive beam forming antenna system using a tunable impedance surface  
A method of and apparatus for beam steering. A feed horn is arranged so that the feed horn illuminates a tunable impedance surface comprising a plurality of individually tunable resonator cells,...
7242368 Multibeam antenna with photonic bandgap material  
A multibeam antenna includes: a photonic bandgap material ( 20 ) having at least one band gap; at least one periodicity defect so as to produce at least one narrow bandwidth inside the at least one...
7239291 Multi-band antenna  
Antenna assemblies and corresponding modes of operation are provided where the first antenna assembly of the system is tuned to a first frequency band ν 1 and the second antenna assembly of the...
7236142 Electromagnetic bandgap device for antenna structures  
An electromagnetic bandgap device is mountable on a RF disturbing structure of an antenna to minimize signal field disturbance imparted thereby. The RF disturbing structure is oriented in a...
7236138 Externally powered negatively refracting photonic bandgap medium  
An electromagnetic medium is described, the electromagnetic medium comprising a periodic array patterned to provide at least one photonic bandgap and to provide negative refraction for incident...
7227501 Compensating structures and reflector antenna systems employing the same  
A compensating structure includes layers of non-uniform arrays of conductive patches configured to provide phase and/or amplitude distribution modification of feed primary patterns.
7218281 Artificial impedance structure  
A method for guiding waves over objects, a method for improving a performance of an antenna, and a method for improving a performance of a radar are disclosed. The methods disclosed teach how an...
7215301 Electromagnetic bandgap structure for isolation in mixed-signal systems  
Electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structures, systems incorporating EBG structures, and methods of making EBG structures, are disclosed. An embodiment of the structure, among others, includes a...
7209082 Method and apparatus for a dual band gap wideband interference suppression  
A method and apparatus including, in some embodiments, a first conductor plane, a first array of periodically distributed co-planar conductive patches, each patch in the first array being connected...
7205941 Composite material with powered resonant cells  
A composite material and related methods are described, the composite material being configured to exhibit a negative effective permittivity and/or a negative effective permeability for incident...
7190315 Frequency selective surface to suppress surface currents  
Briefly, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, an apparatus to suppress surface currents is provided. The apparatus may include very high frequency (VHF) antenna and a frequency...
7190324 Low-profile lens antenna  
This invention relates to a low-profile lens antenna. In particular, this invention relates to a low-profile lens antenna for use in a depression in a surface, e.g. a concavity in the ground. A...
7190325 Dynamic frequency selective surfaces  
An antenna system is disclosed. The antenna system includes at least one antenna element and an adaptable frequency-selective-surface responsive to operating characteristics of the at least one...
7190326 Conductive frequency selective surface utilizing arc and line elements  
An electrically conductive coating of an automotive heatable windshield has a communication window having an enhanced frequency selective surface having arranged passing areas (uncoated areas) and...
7180468 Object detecting device  
To provide an object detecting device having a capability of sufficiently adjusting the detection areas to suit to the environment in which it is installed, the object detecting device includes an...
7180473 Antenna with built-in filter  
At least one filter block ( 25, 35, 45 ) is formed in a thin and flat dielectric multilayer structure ( 21 ) and fixed with radiation elements ( 2, 3 ). Each filter block includes at least one of a...
7173565 Tunable frequency selective surface  
An apparatus and methods for operating a frequency selective surface are disclosed. The apparatus can be tuned to an on/off state or transmit/reflect electromagnetic energy in any frequency. The...
7173577 Frequency selective surfaces and phased array antennas using fluidic dielectrics  
A phased array antenna ( 100 ) having a frequency selective surface comprises a substrate ( 125 ) and an array of antenna elements ( 140 ) thereon. Each antenna element comprises a medial feed...
7170460 Polarized wave separator, converter for satellite broadcast reception, and antenna device for satellite broadcast reception  
A polarized wave separator includes a tubular waveguide, and a partition extending in the waveguide along the longitudinal direction thereof. The end of the partition facing the longitudinal...
7154451 Large aperture rectenna based on planar lens structures  
A rectenna structure comprising a flexible, dielectric sheet of material; a plurality of metallic lenslets disposed on the sheet of material; and a plurality of diodes disposed on the sheet of...
7151506 Electromagnetic energy coupling mechanism with matrix architecture control  
The present invention relates generally to reconfigurable, solid-state matrix arrays comprising multiple rows and columns of reconfigurable secondary mechanisms that are independently tuned....
7151507 Low-loss, dual-band electromagnetic band gap electronically scanned antenna utilizing frequency selective surfaces  
A dual-band electromagnetic band gap (EBG) electronically scanned antenna utilizing frequency selective surfaces (FSS) uses FSS waveguide phase shifters. Each FSS waveguide phase shifter has a...
7145518 Multiple-frequency common antenna  
A multiple-frequency common antenna has a first substrate sheet and a second substrate sheet respectively structured by an HIP consisting of a metal plate, small metal plates disposed in two...
7145512 Reconfigurable plasma antenna with interconnected gas enclosures  
A reconfigurable antenna comprises an array of interconnected gas enclosures, each of the enclosures being controllable between at least a first state in which gas within the enclosure is...
7138958 Reflector antenna radome with backlobe suppressor ring and method of manufacturing  
A radome adapted to reduce backlobes of an associated reflector antenna via application of a conductive ring with an inward facing edge about the periphery of the radome. The conductive ring may be...
7136028 Applications of a high impedance surface  
Disclosed herein are various high-impedance surfaces having high capacitance and inductance properties and methods for their manufacture. One exemplary high-impedance surface includes a plurality...
7136029 Frequency selective high impedance surface  
Disclosed herein are various high-impedance surfaces having high capacitance and inductance properties. One exemplary high-impedance surface includes a plurality of conductive structures arranged...
7119755 Wave antenna lens system  
An array of dielectric wave antennas is disclosed. Each wave antenna has a central dielectric portion and two dielectric tapered portions, disposed on opposite sides of the central dielectric...
7095627 Frequency-selective shield structure and electric device having the structure  
A shield structure that transmits a radio wave in a specific frequency band and that exhibits a high shield characteristic in other bands. An opening portion having a specific shape and a specific...
7081865 Method and apparatus for improving antenna radiation patterns  
Several electromagnetic scattering structures are designed to improve antenna radiation patterns. The electromagnetic scattering structure has a conductive layer with certain patterns, and is...
7075388 Ceramic RF triplexer  
A monoblock ceramic triplexer for connection to an antenna, a transmitter, a receiver and a GPS receiver is described. The triplexer includes a solid, monolithic core of dielectric material...
7071889 Low frequency enhanced frequency selective surface technology and applications  
DC inductive FSS technology is a printed slow wave structure usable for reduced size resonators in antenna and filter applications of wireless applications. It is a dispersive surface defined in...
7071888 Steerable leaky wave antenna capable of both forward and backward radiation  
Leaky wave antenna beam steering that is capable of steering in a backward direction, as well as further down toward the horizon in the forward direction than was previously possible, and also...
7042419 High-selectivity electromagnetic bandgap device and antenna system  
An antenna system includes an antenna element and an electromagnetic bandgap element proximate the antenna element wherein the electromagnetic bandgap element is optimized for narrow bandwidth...
7034774 Feed structure and antenna structures incorporating such feed structures  
A polarizer for an antenna and antenna structures are disclosed. According to one aspect a polarizer includes a generally cylindrical sidewall portion extending between spaced apart end portions....