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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Marc Eisenzweig Sherwin, Catonsville, MD (US);
Robert S. Howell, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Pavel Borodulin, Baltimore, MD (US);
Harold Clifton Hearne, Iii, Baltimore, MD (US);
Nabil Abdel-meguid El-hinnawy, Columbia, MD (US);
Robert Miles Young, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Marc Eisenzweig Sherwin, Catonsville, MD (US);
Robert S. Howell, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Pavel Borodulin, Baltimore, MD (US);
Harold Clifton Hearne, III, Baltimore, MD (US);
Nabil Abdel-Meguid El-Hinnawy, Columbia, MD (US);
Robert Miles Young, Ellicott City, MD (US);
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Falls Church, VA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the invention includes a reconfigurable circuit comprising a phase-change material switch. The phase-change material switch includes an actuation portion configured to receive a control signal having one of a first state and a second state and to emit a first heat profile in response to the first state of the control signal and a second heat profile in response to the second state of the control signal. The phase-change material switch also includes a switch portion comprising a phase-change material in proximity with the actuation portion. The switch portion can be selectable between a conducting state in response to the first heat profile to conduct an input signal from an input to an output of the phase-change material switch and a blocking state in response to the second heat profile to substantially block the input signal from the input to the output.