STTR Phase I: MEMS Reconfigurable Antenna for Portable Wireless Devices

STTR 第一阶段：用于便携式无线设备的 MEMS 可重构天线

• 批准号: 1417284
• 负责人: Gina Kim
• 金额: $ 22.49万
• 依托单位: Black Hills Nanosystems
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1417284&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STTR; Phase; MEMS; Reconfigurable; Antenna

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.

该项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是可重构天线产品在移动市场的商业可用性。 可重新配置的天线可以带来巨大的好处，包括节省电力、改善信号接收、带宽、链路预算、减少掉线并提高整体通话质量、改善增益/范围以及增加同一无线基础设施所服务的设备数量。 潜在机会至少为 20 亿美元，因为仅手机市场每年就拥有超过 10 亿根天线。 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，每年已超过 10 亿部。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可重构天线，使便携式无线设备能够以最佳效率持续运行，从而提高带宽便携式无线设备的范围、能效、容量和整体性能。所提出的天线解决了竞争方法的效率和线性度缺点。 拟议项目将重点关注 RF MEMS 集成、优化和实验验证。