Novel Smart Antennas based on CRLH Metamaterial Technology for MIMO System

该项目将开发一种突破性的多输入多输出（MIMO）智能天线系统，该系统基于新的复合右/左手（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DSP接口，控制LWA动态扫描整个3D空间，以便实时锁定到散射（以及可能的移动的）环境的最佳信道上。这种操作将通过智能CRLH LWA的独特功能来实现，该智能CRLH LWA使用变容二极管提供双波束电子扫描，同时与传统阵列方法相比，只需要很小的占地面积并且不需要馈电网络。该系统将在新兴MIMO技术的关键性能属性方面提供根本性的改进，包括降低功耗、提高紧凑性和增强辐射模式多样性，从而为最终用户带来更高的数据吞吐量和更高的信道可靠性。该项目开发的创新和基础技术将与最近成立的初创企业ScisWave Corp.一起进行商业开发。

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.