STTR Phase I: MEMS Reconfigurable Antenna for Portable Wireless Devices

该项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是移动市场上可重构天线产品的商业可用性。可重构天线可以提供巨大的好处，包括节省电力，改善信号接收，带宽，链路预算，减少掉线，提高整体通话质量，提高增益/范围，增加相同无线基础设施服务的设备数量。潜在的机会至少是20亿美元，因为仅手机市场每年就有超过10亿个天线。智能手机将是市场中最相关的部分。智能手机的比例每年都在攀升，每年已经超过10亿部。这项小型企业技术转移研究（STTR）第一阶段项目将开发一种小型化的可重构天线，使便携式无线设备能够以最佳效率持续运行，提高带宽、范围、能源效率、容量和便携式无线设备的整体性能。所提出的天线解决了竞争方法的效率和线性缺点。该项目将专注于射频MEMS集成、优化和实验验证。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is the commercial availability of the reconfigurable antenna product for the mobile market. The reconfigurable antenna can provide enormous benefits including power savings, improve signal reception, bandwidth, link budgets, reduce drop-calls and improve overall call quality, improved gain/range and increasing the number of devices served by the same wireless infrastructure. The potential opportunity is at least $2 billion as the cell phone market alone accounts for more than 1 billion antennas per year. Smart phones would be the most relevant portion of the market. The percentage of smart phones is climbing every year and already exceeds 1 billion units annually.This Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Phase I project will develop a miniaturized reconfigurable antenna that will enable portable wireless devices to continuously operate at optimal efficiency, improving bandwidth, range, energy efficiency, capacity and overall performance of portable wireless devices. The proposed antenna addresses the efficiency and linearity shortcomings of competing approaches. The proposed project will focus on RF MEMS integration, optimization, and experimental verification.