Abstract:
A system for wirelessly communicating between a base station and a mobile device, including a reflector integrated with a mobile device, wherein the reflector reflects carrier radiation transmitted from a base station, to form a reflection of the carrier radiation, and input data from the mobile device modulates a reflection coefficient of the reflector, thereby modulating the reflection such that the reflection of the carrier radiation carries the input data to the base station.
Abstract:
A system, method, device, and apparatus provide a dielectric waveguide splitter/bi-directional link. A dielectric substrate fabricated into a first Y-junction waveguide with a first port splitting into a first branch leading to a second port and a second branch leading to a third port. An angle between the first branch and the second branch is below ninety degrees (90°). The dielectric waveguide splitter enables millimeter-wave (mmWave) transmission between the first port and the second port while reducing feedback of the mmWave between the second and third port. Two Y-junction waveguides may be fabricated back-to-back to provide simultaneous bidirectional mmWave transmission at a single frequency.
Abstract:
A deployable antenna is described. The antenna comprises a mesh attached to foldable ribs, a hub and a sub-reflector. The antenna can be stowed in a tight space for launching in space, and later deployed by extending out of its container. The antenna is designed to work in the Ka band or other bands and can increase data rates and function as a radio antenna.
Abstract:
A data link, comprising a substrate; and an ink structure printed and/or marked on a substrate, wherein the structure directs an electric, magnetic, and/or electromagnetic wave between two locations.
Abstract:
A device can be configured as an under-constrained deployable system. Such a system can use under-constrained deployable couplers. A device may include a second segment coupled to the first segment by a high strain structure, wherein the high strain structure is bent to store deployment energy in a stowed configuration. Releasing the stored deployment energy can allow an under-constrained deployable system to transition to an expanded configuration. A tensioning system can transition an under-constrained deployable system to a deployed configuration.
Abstract:
An antenna for dual-band or wide-band communication link. The antenna includes a patch array, arranged above a top ground plane, that includes one or more panels, each panel included one or more patch subarrays, and each patch subarray includes single patch elements made from metal. Each patch element includes: a flat rectangular radiation surface element into which a rectangular cutout is formed; an RF power feed point having a cylindrical shape that makes contact to the bottom side of the radiation surface element and feeds through a hole formed in the top ground plane for connection to the RF power; and a structural post having a cylindrical shape that contacts, at one end, the bottom side of the radiation surface element at a region of the radiation surface element where electric surface current is substantially smaller than any other region, and contacts the top ground plane at a second end.
Abstract:
A deployable reflectarray antenna stowable in a 6U CubeSat volume is deployed through tape deployers and quartz cables. The telescoping waveguide is attached to the horn with a threaded insert. The reflectarray antenna has, at 37.75 GHz, a directivity of 48.5 dBi, a gain of 47.8 dBi, and an aperture efficiency of 42%. Hinges with a ball-end screw enable precise control of deployment angle of adjacent panels in the reflectarray antenna.
Abstract:
A system, method, device, and apparatus provide a dielectric waveguide splitter/bi-directional link. A dielectric substrate fabricated into a first Y-junction waveguide with a first port splitting into a first branch leading to a second port and a second branch leading to a third port. An angle between the first branch and the second branch is below ninety degrees (90°). The dielectric waveguide splitter enables millimeter-wave (mmWave) transmission between the first port and the second port while reducing feedback of the mmWave between the second and third port. Two Y-junction waveguides may be fabricated back-to-back to provide simultaneous bidirectional mmWave transmission at a single frequency.