[HTML][HTML] Flexible active antenna arrays

M Gal-Katziri, A Fikes, A Hajimiri - npj Flexible Electronics, 2022 - nature.com
Complex and dynamic control of radiated fields are advantageous for flexible radio systems,
which naturally move, roll, bend, twist, deform, and vibrate. Practical challenges hinder the …

Popup arrays for large space-borne apertures

OS Mizrahi, A Fikes, A Truong… - … on Antennas and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large apertures in space are critical for high-power and high-bandwidth applications
spanning wireless power transfer (WPT) and communication, however progress on this front …

Low frequency mechanical antennas: Electrically short transmitters from mechanically-actuated dielectrics

JA Bickford, RS McNabb, PA Ward… - … on Antennas and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Antennas that operate in the low-frequency (LF) band and below are useful for a number of
applications. However, the long wavelengths result in very low efficiency for antennas that …

Characterization of 3-D printed flexible heterogeneous substrate designs for wearable antennas

M Ramadan, R Dahle - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel and scalable approach to realizing 3-D printed flexible
substrates for wearable antennas with customizable gain and bandwidth. The …

A survey of small, low-frequency antennas: Recent designs, practical challenges, and research directions

FT Dagefu, J Choi, BM Sadler… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robust, secure, low-power wireless communications and networking are needed to support
emerging applications in emergency and disaster response, robotics, autonomous vehicles …

Rigid-flexible antenna array (RFAA) for lightweight deployable apertures

WF Moulder, RN Das, AC Maccabe… - 2020 14th European …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
this paper presents the Rigid-Flexible Antenna Array (RFAA), a concept for realizing ultra-
light flexible antenna arrays that can readily integrate active components. This enables …

[HTML][HTML] Reconfigurable multiband operation for wireless devices embedding antenna boosters

J Anguera, A Andújar, JL Leiva, O Massó, J Tonnesen… - Electronics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Wireless devices such as smart meters, trackers, and sensors need connections at multiple
frequency bands with low power consumption, thus requiring multiband and efficient …

High performance, tunable electrically small antennas through mechanically guided 3D assembly

F Liu, Y Chen, H Song, F Zhang, Z Fan, Y Liu, X Feng… - Small, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
To address demands for increased data transmission rates, electrically small antennas
(ESAs) that simultaneously offer large frequency bandwidths and small physical sizes are of …

Thin film antenna development and optimization

J Pearson, R Romanofsky - 47th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC …, 2006 - arc.aiaa.org
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center (GRC)
and SRS Technologies (SRS) are collaborating on research and development of lightweight …

Scalable, deployable, flexible phased array sheets

M Gal-Katziri, A Fikes, F Bohn, B Abiri… - 2020 IEEE/MTT-S …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large aperture flexible and deployable phased arrays will enable active RF fabric and
deployable array structures for terrestrial and space applications. The flexible phased array …