Microstrip antenna elements and arrays comprising a shaped nanotube fabric layer and integrated two terminal nanotube select devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8937575-B2
Application number	US-53368709-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 31, 2009
Priority date	Jul 31, 2009
Publication date	Jan 20, 2015
Grant date	Jan 20, 2015

Abstract

A nanotube based microstrip antenna element is provided along with arrays of same. The nanotube based microstrip antenna element comprises a dielectric substrate layer sandwiched between a ground plane layer and a conductive nanotube layer, the conductive nanotube layer shaped to form a radiating structure. In more advanced embodiments, the nanotube based microstrip antenna element further includes an integrated two terminal nanotube switch device such as to provide a selectability function to such microstrip antenna elements and reconfigurable arrays of same. Anisotropic nanotube fabric layers are also used to provide substantially transparent microstrip antenna structures which can be deposited over display screens and the like.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An antenna element comprising:
a ground plane layer;
a dielectric substrate layer deposited over said ground plane layer;
at least two electrode elements deposited over said dielectric substrate layer;
a patterned non-woven nanotube fabric layer deposited over said dielectric substrate layer, said patterned non-woven nanotube fabric layer comprising a shaped radiating structure and a transmission line element; and
wherein said transmission line eleme…

Assignees

• Ward Jonathan W
• Smith Robert F
• Segal Brent M
• Nantero Inc

Inventors

• Ward Jonathan W
• Smith Robert F
• Segal Brent M

Classifications

• H01Q9/0407 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01Q21/08

  Electricity · mapped topic