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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2013
Applicant:
The Penn State Research Foundation, University Park, PA (US);
Inventors:
Douglas H. Werner, State College, PA (US);
Zhihao Jiang, State College, PA (US);
Micah D. Gregory, Trout Run, PA (US);
Assignee:
The Penn State Research Foundation, University Park, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 9/30 (2006.01); H01Q 1/36 (2006.01); H01Q 9/32 (2006.01); H01Q 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 1/364 (2013.01); H01Q 9/32 (2013.01); H01Q 15/0086 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49016 (2015.01);
Abstract
An antenna system is provided that includes an antenna having an elongated conducting segment, such as a metal rod. An anisotropic metamaterial surrounds the elongated conducting segment of the antenna. The presence of the metamaterial remarkably expands the VSWR <2. An example antenna is a monopole antenna, such as a quarter-wavelength monopole antenna, surrounded by the metamaterial.