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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
May. 23, 2019
The Government of the United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, Arlington, VA (US);
John T. Logan, Alexandria, VA (US);
Rick W. Kindt, Arlington, VA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for Planar Ultrawideband Modular Antenna (PUMA) arrays that use slots as primary radiating mechanisms. Slot-based PUMA arrays in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure can achieve approximately the same performance as dipole-based PUMA arrays. Systems and methods according to embodiments of the present disclosure enable wideband slot-based antenna arrays that can be planar printed using etched metallic traces and plated through vias, have a single input per unit cell, and have unit cells that are coupled to radiating slot(s) that are continuous across multiple unit cells.