Alcan Systems Gmbh

Merck Patent Gesellschaft MIT Beschrankter Haftung

Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Gmbh

Schenck Process Gmbh

Technische Universitaet Darmstadt

Merck Patent Gmbh

Karlsruher Institut Fur Technologie

Technische Universitat Darmstadt

Rolf Jakoby

Onur Hamza Karabey

Atsutaka Manabe

Wenjuan Hu

Andreas Penirschke

Felix Goelden

Patrick Scheele

Georg Lüssem

Joachim Binder

Jürgen Hausselt

Hans-Joachim Ritzhaupt-Kleissl

Bernd Allenberg

Carsten Weil

Stefan Müller

Holger Maune

Sönke Schmidt

Florian Paul

Andre Giere

Martin Schuessler

Peter Best

Carolin Hessinger

Maria Cristina Cardoso

Henry David Herce

Martin SCHÜSSLER

Markus Tobias Paravicini

Bianca Bertulat

A two-dimensional (2-D) beam steerable phased array antenna is presented comprising a continuously electronically steerable material including a tunable material or a variable dielectric material, preferred a liquid crystal material. A compact antenna architecture including a patch antenna array, tunable phase shifters, a feed network and a bias network is proposed. Similar to the LC display, the proposed antenna is fabricated by using automated manufacturing techniques and therefore the fabrication costs are reduced considerably.

Electronically steerable planar phase array antenna

A phase shift device includes a planar transmission line that is formed by a signal electrode and a ground electrode which are separated by a dielectric substance, whereby the signal electrode of the planar transmission line is divided into several pieces and includes overlapping areas of adjacent pieces that are filled with a tunable liquid crystal material, thereby forming a dielectric tunable component (varactor) with a metal-insulator-metal type capacitor. The several pieces of the signal electrode are arranged at two or more different distance levels with respect to the ground electrode. The tunable liquid crystal material is arranged as a continuous layer between several pieces of the signal electrode that are arranged at two different distance levels.

Phase shift device

The invention relates to a device for determining at least one parameter of at least one medium, said medium being introducible into at least one measuring path. An electric and/or electromagnetic field can be partially coupled into or out of the medium by passing at least one electric and/or electromagnetic signal into the measuring path. The measuring path comprises at least one line arrangement having at least two elementary cells arranged along the measuring path, said elementary cells comprising at least one electric path from at least one input to at least one output and comprising at least one respective capacitative element. The electrical properties of the capacitative element can by be modified by the medium. The electric and/or the electromagnetic signal can be applied to the input of a first elementary cell and the output of the first elementary cell can be connected to the input of a second elementary cell. The capacitative element of the respective elementary cell is arranged in the electric path of the first and second elementary cell. At least one inductive element connects the first elementary cell and the second elementary cell to a ground. The invention also relates to a method for determining a parameter of a medium.

Device and method for determining at least one parameter of a medium

The present invention relates to dielectric ceramics, thin and/or thick layers produced therefrom and a method for the production thereof and the use of the dielectrics and of the thin and/or thick layers.

Ceramic dielectric or thin and/or thick layers containing at least one ceramic dielectric method for production and use thereof

An antenna arrangement for coupling high frequency electromagnetic waves into or out of a pipe-shaped hollow body includes two patch antenna elements that are located opposite one another and integrated in the pipe inner wall () of the hollow body (), and have curved surfaces fitted to the curved longitudinal pipe inner wall of the hollow body (). An apparatus for mass flow measurement includes at least two of such antenna arrangements axially spaced apart from one another in a conveyor pipe section.

Antenna device for injecting or extracting microwaves into/from tubular hollow bodies, and device for measuring mass flow by using antenna devices of this type

The present invention relates to switchable components for high-frequency technology, in particular microwave technology, which use liquid-crystalline dielectrics, to the liquid-crystal materials, to the use thereof, and to a process for the production of the components, for their operation and for improving their characteristics.

Components for high-frequency technology

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