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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2011
Anatoliy Volodymyrovych Glushchenko, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Zbigniew Jan Celinski, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Robert Edwin Camley, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
John August Kosinski, Wall Township, NJ (US);
Anatoliy Volodymyrovych Glushchenko, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Zbigniew Jan Celinski, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Robert Edwin Camley, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
John August Kosinski, Wall Township, NJ (US);
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
A nanoparticle-enhanced liquid crystal phase shifter is provided including a first substrate layer, a plurality of electrodes attached to the substrate layer, a ground plane layer attached to a second substrate layer, and a liquid crystal layer between the ground plane layer and the first substrate layer, including a suspension of a liquid crystal material and highly polarizable nanoparticles having specific shape and size characteristics.