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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2013
Applicant:
Hrl Laboratories, Llc, Malibu, CA (US);
Inventor:
Sarabjit Mehta, Calabasas, CA (US);
Assignee:
HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 1/38 (2006.01); H01P 1/18 (2006.01); H01Q 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01P 1/184 (2013.01); H01Q 9/0442 (2013.01);
Abstract
A tunable antenna includes a patch antenna including a substrate, a metallic patch mounted on a first side of the substrate, a signal line connected through the substrate to the metallic patch, and a ground plane on a second side of the substrate opposite the first side. The tunable antenna includes an ionizable gas adjacent to the patch antenna.