Polymer resonator antenna arrays (I2I Phase I)

无线设备代表着加拿大数十亿美元的产业，并以前所未有的方式推动着我们的生活和经济，人们对微型通信和传感器设备和网络的需求正在改变我们彼此交互和收集周围环境数据的方式。 制造商用无线应用天线的一种新方法是使用聚合物基材料。聚合物可以与各种各样的填料混合，以产生独特的性能。聚合物的天然柔软性极大地简化了制造，并允许使用微制造技术将厚材料层成形为具有精细特征的复杂几何形状和阵列。 将开发基于萨斯喀彻温大学“聚合物基谐振器天线（PRA）技术”的预商用原型阵列天线。 PRA天线阵列原型将专门为新兴的毫米波应用开发，例如高数据速率固定蜂窝无线回程和无线汽车驾驶员辅助系统。将开发几种原型以展示不同的性能特征。原型将展示各种性能和制造优势，用于商业应用，使用新型材料和基于聚合物的微加工方法。

Wireless devices represent multi-billion dollar industries in Canada, and drive our lives and economy like never before with a desire for miniature communication and sensor devices and networks that are changing the very way we interact with each other and gather data about the environment around us. A new approach to fabricate antennas for commercial wireless applications is to use polymer-based materials. Polymers can be mixed with a wide variety of fillers to produce unique performance capabilities. The natural softness of polymers dramatically simplifies the fabrication, and allows the use of microfabrication techniques to shape thick material layers into complicated geometries and arrays with fine features. Pre-commercial prototype array antennas based on University of Saskatchewan "Polymer-based Resonator Antenna (PRA) technology" will be developed. The PRA antenna array prototypes will be developed specifically for emerging millimeter-wave applications, for instance in high data rate fixed cellular wireless backhaul, and wireless automotive driver assist systems. Several prototypes will be developed to demonstrate different performance characteristics. The prototypes will demonstrate various performance and fabrication advantages for adoption into commercial applications, using novel materials and a polymer-based microfabrication approach.