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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2013
Honeywell International, Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes an antenna having multiple layers. At least a first of the layers includes both an effective medium and an electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) medium. The antenna could include a ground plane and a feed line, and the first layer of the antenna can be located between the ground plane and the feed line. The antenna could also include a slot ground and a planar antenna structure, and the first layer of the antenna could be located between the slot ground and the planar antenna structure. The antenna could further include a first substrate between a feed line and a slot ground and a second substrate covering a planar antenna structure, and the first layer could include one of the first and second substrates.