Novel Dielectric Resonator Structures and Metamaterials

这项提议的目的是研究由陶瓷介质材料制成的新型通信元件。这些部件的关键创新之处在于，它们是基于创新的陶瓷形状，如螺旋或螺旋。这样的组件可以在现代通信系统中提供几个实质性的优势。通信系统效率的这些改进将为普通公众和移动电话公司带来非常显著的好处。如果通过改进组件可以大幅提高信号强度(可能达到3-5分贝)，这将意味着移动电话发射的辐射水平可以大大降低。或者，如果发射功率水平保持不变，那么3G等新系统所需的新天线杆数量可能会大幅减少。

It is the aim of this proposal to look at new kinds of communication components that are made from ceramic dielectric material. The key innovation in these components is that they are based upon innovative ceramic shapes such as a helix or spiral. Such components could offer several substantial advantages in a modern communiation system. These improvements in the efficiency of communication systems would have very significant benefits for the general public and also for the mobile phone companies. If substantial increases in signal strength (of perhaps 3-5 dB) could be attained, through improved components, this would mean that emitted mobile phone radiation levels could be substantially reduced. Alternatively if the emitted power levels were kept the same then the number of new antenna masts required for new systems such as 3G could be dramatically reduced.