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Artificial dielectric antenna elements

  • US 7,379,030 B1
  • Filed: 11/10/2005
  • Issued: 05/27/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An artificial dielectric antenna structure for reducing a mass and an insertion loss of an antenna, the artificial dielectric antenna structure comprising:

  • a plurality of layers of dielectric material, each of the plurality of layers of dielectric material having a dielectric constant;

    a plurality of spacing layers interposed between the plurality of layers of dielectric material, each of the plurality of spacing layers having a dielectric constant lower than the dielectric constant of any of the plurality of layers of dielectric material; and

    first and second impedance-matching layers of dielectric material surrounding the plurality of layers of dielectric material, each of the first and second impedance-matching layers of dielectric material having an axial width of about ¼

    of an operating wavelength of the antenna in the dielectric material of the impedance matching layer.

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