Novel Smart Antennas based on CRLH Metamaterial Technology for MIMO System

该项目将开发一种开创性的多输入多输出（MIMO）智能天线系统，该系统基于新型复合左/右（CRLH）超材料漏波天线（LWA）技术，以增强无线通信性能。所提出的系统将包含一个DSP接口，控制LWAs动态扫描整个3D空间，以便实时锁定散射（可能是移动）环境的最佳通道。与传统的阵列方法相比，智能CRLH LWAs的独特功能可以提供铅笔束电子扫描，使用变容管，占地面积小，不需要馈电网络。该系统将从根本上改进新兴MIMO技术的关键性能属性，包括降低功耗、改进紧凑性和增强辐射模式多样性，从而为最终用户提供更高的数据吞吐量和更高的信道可靠性。在这个项目中开发的创新和基础技术将与最近成立的初创企业ScisWave Corp进行商业开发。

This project will develop a groundbreaking Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) smart antenna system based on the new Composite Right/Left-Handed (CRLH) metamaterial leaky-wave antenna (LWA) technology for enhanced wireless communication performances. The proposed system will incorporate a DSP interface controlling the LWAs to dynamically scan the entire 3D space in order lock in real-time onto the optimal channel of the scattering (and possibly mobile) environment. This operation will be enabled by the unique features of smart CRLH LWAs, which provide pencil-beam electronic scanning, using varactors, while requiring only a small footprint and necessitating no feeding network, in contrast to conventional array approaches. This system will offer radical improvements in the key performance attributes of emergent MIMO technology, including reduced power consumption, improved compactness, and enhanced radiation pattern diversity leading to higher data throughput and higher channel reliability for the end-user. The innovation and underlying technology developed in this project will be commercially exploited with the recently incorporated start-up venture ScisWave Corp.