Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100079217 | Multilayer metamaterial isolator - A multilayer metamaterial isolator and method of fabricating the same. A first layer or surface of a multilayer dielectric substrate includes a first leg of a first resonator loop. A second layer or surface of the multilayer dielectric substrate includes a second leg of the first resonator loop. A third leg of the first resonator loop extends through the multilayer dielectric substrate interconnecting the first and second legs of the first resonator loop. | 04-01-2010 |
20100263199 | Multilayer metamaterial isolator - A method of fabricating an array of radiating elements includes on one layer or surface of a dielectric substrate, forming a first leg of a first resonator loop, on another layer or surface of the dielectric substrate forming a second leg of the first resonator loop between adjacent radiating elements, forming a via through the dielectric substrate, and metallizing the via forming a third leg of the first resonator loop interconnecting the first and second legs. | 10-21-2010 |
20110199281 | Metamaterial radome/isolator - A metamaterial radome/isolator system includes a radiation source for providing a radiation beam through the radome/isolator having a frequency beyond the bandgap region where the metamaterial permittivity and permeability are both positive and the metamaterial medium has a low, matched relative permittivity and relative permeability. | 08-18-2011 |
20120112835 | TRANSFORMER COUPLED DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIER - An amplifier having an input transmission network with a plurality of input transformers having serially coupled primary windings. Each one of the input transformers has a secondary winding magnetically coupled to a corresponding one of the primary windings. The amplifier includes an output transmission network having a plurality of output transformers having serially coupled secondary windings. Each one of the output transformers has a secondary winding magnetically coupled to a corresponding one of the primary windings. The amplifier includes a plurality of amplifier sections, each one the sections having an input connected to a corresponding one of the secondary windings of the input transformers and an output connected to a corresponding one of the primary windings of the output transformers. The input and output transmission networks are arranged to combine signals passing from an input to the input transmission network through the plurality of amplifier sections combine in-phase at an output of the output transmission section. | 05-10-2012 |
20120114076 | VARIABLE PHASE SHIFTER-ATTENUATOR - A phase shifter-attenuator system having: a controller for producing a digital word representative of a predetermined phase shift and attenuation provided to an input signal; and a phase shifter-attenuation section. The phase shifter-attenuation section includes: a phase rotator for providing one of a plurality combinations of phase shifts-attenuation states to the input signal selectively in accordance with one portion of the produced digital word; and an attenuation section for distributing the plurality of combinations of phase shift-attenuation states over a selected range of attenuations, such range being selected in accordance with a second portion of the produced digital word. The phase shifter-attenuator section provides one of a plurality of combinations of phase shift-attenuation states to the input signal selectively in accordance with one portion of the produced digital word, the combinations being distributed over a range of attentions selected in accordance with a second portion of the digital word. | 05-10-2012 |
20150130564 | FREQUENCY SELECTIVE LIMITER - A selective frequency limiter having a magnetic material and a slow wave structure disposed to magnetically couple a magnetic field, produced by electromagnetic energy propagating through the slow wave structure, into the magnetic material. | 05-14-2015 |
20150303567 | BEAM FORMING SYSTEM HAVING LINEAR SAMPLERS - A frequency conversion circuit having a plurality of N signal channels, each being fed an input signal and a train of pluses having a period T and a duty cycle T/N. Each channel includes: a sampler coupled the input signal and being responsive to sampling signals; and a controllable time delay for producing the train of sampling signals in response to the train of pulses, the time delay imparting a time delay to the pulses in accordance with a time delay command signal fed to the time delay. Each one of the sampling signals is produced by the time delay in each one of the channels with the period T and the duty cycle T/N with the sampling signals in one of the to trains of the sampling signals being delayed with respect to the sampling signals in another one of the trains the sampling signals a time T/N. | 10-22-2015 |
20150303962 | LINEAR SAMPLER - A frequency conversion circuit having a plurality of N signal channels, each being fed an input signal and a train of pluses having a period T and a duty cycle T/N. Each signal channel includes: a column III-V semiconductor sampler coupled the input signal and being responsive to sampling signals; and a column IV semiconductor controllable time delay for producing the train of sampling signals in response to a train of pulses produced on the column IV semiconductor, the time delay imparting a time delay to the pulses in accordance with a time delay command signal fed to the time delay. Each one of the sampling signals is produced by the time delay in each one of the channels with the period T and the duty cycle T/N with the sampling signals in one of the trains of the sampling signals being delayed with respect to the sampling signals in another one of the trains the sampling signals a time T/N. | 10-22-2015 |