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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2009
Filed:
May. 29, 2007
Robert A. York, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Robert A. York, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Agile RF, Inc., Goleta, CA (US);
Abstract
A wafer antenna comprises a wafer substrate, a plurality of antenna elements integrated on the wafer substrate for radiating and receiving a radio frequency signal, an electrical connection integrated on the wafer substrate; a feed network integrated on the wafer substrate for distributing the RF signal from the electrical connection to the antenna elements and from the antenna elements to the electrical connection, and a plurality of tunable dielectric phase shifters integrated on the wafer substrate with each of the tunable dielectric phase shifters coupled to a corresponding one of the antenna elements and controlling the phase of the RF signal coupled to the corresponding one of the antenna elements.