Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Enhanced nuclear quadrupole resonance and ground penetrating radar using metamaterial antenna
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Application No.: US14150704Application Date: 2014-01-08
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Publication No.: US09945917B2Publication Date: 2018-04-17
- Inventor: Christina Hartsell Drake , Clara Rivero Baleine , Nelson Ch Poon
- Applicant: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US MD Bethesda
- Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US MD Bethesda
- Agency: Beusse Wolter Sanks & Maire, PLLC
- Agent Terry M. Sanks, Esq.
- Main IPC: G01R33/34
- IPC: G01R33/34 ; G01R33/44 ; G01N24/08 ; G01R33/36
Abstract:
A method and system for enhanced NQR or GPR include a metamaterial antenna configured to both transmit and receive a magnetic field focused at a near-field distance separated from the antenna at a corresponding antenna frequency corresponding to a nuclear quadrupole resonance frequency of an atom in a target material.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150260812A1 ENHANCED NUCLEAR QUADRUPOLE RESONANCE AND GROUND PENETRATING RADAR USING METAMATERIAL ANTENNA Public/Granted day:2015-09-17
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