An antenna (100) for emitting radiation from at least one electromagnetic traveling wave which propagates along a guide path is designed to reduce reflection of the traveling wave likely to occur at the end of the guide path. To this purpose, the guide path has at least one portion in the form of a spiral segment (11, 12), which is connected to another portion of the guide path in the form of a loop (13). Gain in the antenna's reflection coefficient can be obtained in this manner, which is effective in particular near a lower frequency limit of a transmission band of the antenna.

The present disclosure relates to base station antennas and base stations. One example base station antenna comprises an antenna array, a reflecting plate with a hole, a microstrip circuit comprising a first conductor strip, and a stripline cavity structure comprising a second conductor strip. The microstrip circuit and the stripline cavity structure are respectively located at opposite sides of the reflecting plate. The first conductor strip and the second conductor strip are connected through the hole.

A unit cell can be used for a metasurface, metamaterial, or beamforming antenna. The unit cell includes a metal layer attached to a substrate. The metal layer defines an iris opening for the unit cell. One or more tunable capacitance devices are positioned within or across the iris opening. Each tunable capacitance device is to tune resonance frequency of the unit cell. Mass transfer technologies or self-assembly processes may be used to position the tunable capacitance devices.

A phase shifter and an antenna are provided. The phase shifter includes: oppositely arranged first and second substrates; a medium layer between the first and second substrates and having an adjustable dielectric constant; a phase shift unit including a transmission line and a phase control electrode, the transmission line being between the first substrate and the medium layer, and the phase control electrode being between the second substrate and the medium layer; and multiple first wires for regulating an electric field between the transmission line and the phase control electrode, an orthographic projection of the first wires onto the first substrate being parallel to an orthographic projection of the transmission line onto the first substrate, the orthographic projection of the first wires onto the first substrate being on opposite sides of the orthographic projection of the transmission line onto the first substrate.

An antenna for suppressing the gain of side lobes includes a substrate, tandem antenna units arranged on the substrate and each including a first feed line and radiating elements, and the width of the radiating elements decreasing gradually from the middle of the first feed line to the two ends; and a power divider disposed on the substrate and including a feeding port, a second feed line with middle connected to the feeding port, and transmission lines, connected to the second feed line respectively. The output powers of the transmission lines decrease gradually from the middle of the second feed line to the two ends, and the transmission lines are respectively connected to the first feed lines. Thereby, the present invention can effectively suppress the gain of the side lobe both in YZ plane and the XZ plane, and improve target detection.

A leaky-wave antenna includes a substrate extending along an axis, and a dielectric waveguide extending along the axis and arranged in the substrate. The dielectric waveguide includes at least a top side, a bottom side, and opposite sides arranged between the top and bottom sides. A distance defined between the opposite sides varies along the axis for at least part of a length of the dielectric waveguide.

Disclosed is an antenna impedance matching circuit, an antenna system, a printed circuit board, and a terminal. The antenna impedance matching circuit comprises: a first transmission line having a first specific length such that the first transmission line is capacitive, and a second transmission line having a second specific length such that the second transmission line is inductive. In particular, the first transmission line and the second transmission line are connected in parallel, and terminals of the first transmission line and the second transmission line are open or shorted.

A unit cell can be used for a metasurface, metamaterial, or beamforming antenna. The unit cell includes a metal layer attached to a substrate. The metal layer defines an iris opening for the unit cell. One or more tunable capacitance devices are positioned within or across the iris opening. Each tunable capacitance device is to tune resonance frequency of the unit cell. Mass transfer technologies or self-assembly processes may be used to position the tunable capacitance devices.

A method for controlling gain of a line amplifier on a cable, the method comprising selecting an unused carrier frequency; transmitting a pulsed pilot signal on the unused carrier frequency into the cable; determining a pilot signal output strength by measuring signal strength of the pilot signal after amplification by the line amplifier; comparing the pilot signal output strength with a target signal strength to determine a difference; and adjusting the gain of the line amplifier corresponding to the difference.

According to one embodiment an antenna apparatus includes: a first conductor layer; a second conductor layer; a dielectric layer between the first and the second conductor layers; a plurality of first conductor vias corresponding to a first direction; a plurality of second conductor vias opposed to the first conductor vias corresponding to the first direction; and a plurality of first openings in the first direction in a region of the first conductor layer between the first and the second conductor vias. A plurality of third conductor vias are part of the plurality of first conductor vias and are arranged along the first openings. Positions of the third conductor vias in a second direction are different from positions of others of the first conductor vias in the second direction, the second direction is substantially orthogonal to the first direction and is substantially parallel to the first conductor layer.