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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2019
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Ted R. Dabrowski, Madison, AL (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
In examples, systems and methods for an antenna are described. The antenna array includes a flexible substrate and a plurality of antenna elements forming a two-dimensional array. Each antenna element includes a stripline feed located halfway through a height dimension of the flexible substrate. Each antenna element further includes a rectangular patch antenna having a first dimension equal to one-half of a wavelength at a given frequency of operation, and a second dimension equal to three-quarters of the wavelength at the given frequency of operation. Moreover, each antenna element includes a slot in the rectangular patch having a slot-length approximately equal to 0.925 of a wavelength at the given frequency of operation, where the stripline feed crosses under the rectangular patch and is orthogonal to a polarization of the slot.