SBIR Phase I: Ultra-low Profile Wideband Metamaterial Antennas Based upon Advanced Textured Ferrite Materials

SBIR 第一阶段：基于先进织构铁氧体材料的超薄宽带超材料天线

• 批准号: 1113687
• 负责人: Andrew Daigle
• 金额: $ 14.59万
• 依托单位: Metamagnetics, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1113687&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Ultra; low; Profile

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project pursues the development of a novel volumetric efficient metamaterial antenna module for wireless and satellite communications, as well as radar applications. This Phase I project incorporates advanced metamaterials and textured ferrite composites to realize a broadband electronic bandgap (EBG) metamaterial as a means for achieving a dramatic profile reduction (λ/60 in contrast to λ/4) in planar antennas. Phase I activities focus on development of the ultra-wideband EBG metamaterial, including the design and refinement of component materials, such as the specially designed textured ferrite substrates operating in the UHF to L frequency range with εr15, μr20, and tanδ ≤ 0.05. In order to achieve operation at L-band, tuning of the cutoff frequency with magnetic fields of the order of 100-200 Oe will be employed. Further, broadband antenna and EBG metamaterials will be co-designed as a single component to enhance the antenna assembly performance, with bandwidths 40%, efficiency 60%, beam width of 100¢ª, and gains close to that of Chu's Limit. The development of advanced ferrite metamaterials represents a highly innovative and enabling advance in low profile antenna technologies.The broader impact/commercial potential of this project includes addressing the needs of both commercial and Department of Defense (DoD) markets. The proposed dual use low profile antenna technology holds the promise of significant performance improvements in height, weight, and aerodynamic drag reduction over current state-of-the-art technologies in wireless, satellite communication, and radar systems. The success of this Phase I project in improving the bandwidth and increasing volumetric efficiency of radio frequency front ends has an enormous potential to impact commercial communications and DoD industries and to stimulate the U.S. economy by producing advanced technologies and, importantly, high-skilled jobs. A recent global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) market report found the global value of GNSS products and services, currently at $3 billion, will grow at a compound annual growth rate between 19 percent and 23 percent, and reach $6 to $8 billion by 2012. This Phase I effort will be performed by a veteran-owned small-business. Employees include a woman as minority-owner and Chief Operating Officer and two students actively pursuing engineering doctorates. As part of this program, the students will be trained in all aspects of metamaterial and antenna design.

该小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目致力于开发一种用于无线和卫星通信以及雷达应用的新型体积高效超材料天线模块。该第一阶段项目采用了先进的超材料和纹理铁氧体复合材料，以实现宽带电子带隙（EBG）超材料作为一种手段，实现了显着的轮廓减少（与#955;/4相比#955;/60）在平面天线。第一阶段的活动重点是超宽带EBG超材料的开发，包括组件材料的设计和改进，例如在UHF到L频率范围内工作的特殊设计的纹理铁氧体衬底，其r15，r20和tan = 0.05。为了实现在L波段的操作，将采用具有100-200 Oe量级的磁场的截止频率的调谐。此外，宽带天线和EBG超材料将被共同设计为单个组件，以提高天线组件的性能，带宽为40%，效率为60%，波束宽度为100 μ m，增益接近朱氏极限。先进铁氧体超材料的开发代表了低剖面天线技术的高度创新和实现进步。该项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力包括满足商业和国防部（DoD）市场的需求。所提出的双用途低剖面天线技术有望在高度、重量和空气动力学阻力减少方面比无线、卫星通信和雷达系统中的当前最先进技术有显著的性能改进。第一阶段项目在提高射频前端的带宽和容积效率方面取得的成功具有巨大的潜力，可以影响商业通信和国防部行业，并通过生产先进技术和高技能工作来刺激美国经济。最近的一份全球导航卫星系统（GNSS）市场报告发现，GNSS产品和服务的全球价值目前为30亿美元，将以19%至23%的复合年增长率增长，到2012年将达到60亿至80亿美元。第一阶段的工作将由一家退伍军人拥有的小企业进行。雇员包括一名担任少数股权所有人兼首席运营官的妇女和两名积极攻读工程博士学位的学生。作为该计划的一部分，学生将在超材料和天线设计的各个方面进行培训。