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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2017
Applicant:
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US);
Inventors:
Goutam Chattopadhyay, Pasadena, CA (US);
Cecile D. Jung-Kubiak, Pasadena, CA (US);
Theodore J. Reck, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
David Gonzalez-Ovejero, Valencia, ES;
Maria Alonso delPino, Pasadena, CA (US);
Assignee:
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Pasadena, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 15/02 (2006.01); H01Q 21/00 (2006.01); H01Q 13/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 21/0087 (2013.01); H01Q 13/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
A modulated MTS antenna including a metasurface fabricated from metallized cylinders on a ground plane. The antenna structure can be designed to operate in the Gigahertz or Terahertz frequency band and to have a well defined directivity. The MTS antenna may be micromachined out of a silicon wafer using deep reactive ion etching (DRIE).