USA As Represented by Secretary of the Navy

Justin A Church

Frederick Joseph Verd

John D Rockway

John Harold Meloling

Jia-Chi Samuel Chieh

Diana Arceo

Lu Xu

Ricardo Santoyo-Mejia

Nazia Mozaffar

Albert B Ryu

Alejandro T Castro

A method for active circuit antenna optimization includes recording a capacitance value at each frequency of a frequency range using one or more tuning capacitors, thereby generating a capacitor value frequency range. The method further includes creating one or more non-linear circuit designs in an RF circuit simulator. The one or more non-linear circuit designs match the capacitance value at each frequency of the frequency range recorded from the one or more tuning capacitors. The method then includes creating one or more non-linear circuits from the non-linear circuit design. Each tuning capacitor has a corresponding non-linear circuit where all the one or more non-linear circuits match the capacitor value frequency range of the one or more tuning capacitors.

Active circuit antenna optimization

A tunable or dual-band antenna includes a ground plane, top plane, a cage structure, first and second half-loops, and a hybrid phase shifter. The cage structure is attached to the ground plane and the top plane that includes four leg structures in electrically-conductive contact with the top plane. The top plane is one of a cross-element with four equilateral elements, a cross-element with eight equilateral elements, or a disc element. The first and second half-loops are independent from each other, located diagonally to each other within the cage structure, and support transmitting and receiving an electromagnetic field orthogonal to each other. The hybrid phase shifter shifts a frequency of the first and second half-loops to 90° from each other. The ground plane has an inner ground plane with two or more capacitors embedded therein.

Tunable antenna

An antenna comprising: a solar collector; two conductive, orthogonal half-loops mounted to the solar collector such that the solar collector functions as a ground; an RF power source configured to feed RF power to each of the two half-loops having a 90-degree phase difference relative to each other; and a conductive cage structure surrounding the two half-loops, wherein the cage structure includes a conductive ring disposed above the center section, the conductive ring having an equilateral cross of conductive material disposed within the ring and supported by leg structures which are in electrically-conductive contact with the solar collector, and wherein each leg structure has attached thereto a non-Foster circuit having a negative impedance, wherein the non-Foster circuits are configured to actively load the cage structure such that the cage structure functions as an active, internal matching network for the antenna.

Broadband circularly polarized antenna incorporating non-Foster active loading

An antenna comprising: a driven element; an input feed coupled to the driven element wherein the input feed is configured to be connected to a receiver; a non-Foster circuit having a negative impedance, wherein the non-Foster circuit is configured to actively load the antenna at a location on the antenna other than at the input feed; and wherein the antenna fits within an imaginary sphere having a radius a, and wherein the product ka is less than 0.5, where k is a wave number.

Non-foster active impedance circuit for electrically small antennas

An antenna comprising: a conductive ground plane; a conductive half loop grounded to the ground plane and configured to be fed with a radio frequency (RF) signal; a single, unitary, three-sided, conductive cage positioned so as to cover the half loop; and dielectric mounts disposed between the cage and the ground plane such that the cage is electrically insulated from the ground plane.

Near field tunable parasitic antenna

An efficient electrically small circularly polarized SATCOM antenna includes two crossed half loops which are encapsulated by a capacitive cage structure which acts as an internal matching network for the antenna. The cage structure induces two orthogonal electric fields which are 90 degrees out of phase, which produces omni-directional circularly polarized radiation patterns. The gain and impedance performance surpasses that of prior art of similar size.

Electrically small circularly polarized antenna

Methods for establishing metamaterial transmission line (MTM TL's) for a phased array antenna can include the initial step of defining a defining a Composite Right/Left Hand (CRLH) CRLH unit cell architecture. A family of unit cells using CRLH TL microstrip architecture can be constructed so that each of the CRLH unit cells have the same physical length, but different cell phases and cell phase slopes. To do this, the stub length of each CRLH unit cell can be varied. Once the family of CRLH unit cells is constructed, different numbers of different CRLH unit cells from the family can be combined with different numbers of conventional right hand TL's, which results in TL's for a phased array antenna that each have the same overall phase and overall phase slope not only at the design frequency f, but over the entire design frequency band for the antenna.

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San Diego, CA, United States of America

Justin A Church