The present invention provides a single-fed wideband circularly-polarized dielectric resonant antenna. The antenna includes a lower antenna portion configured as a twisted inverted-frustum having a twist angle θ between its top and bottom surfaces, wherein the twist angle θ is greater than zero degrees and less than 5 degrees. An upper antenna portion extends from the lower antenna portion top surface. The upper portion includes plural interleaved slabs of first and second dielectric materials having respective first and second dielectric constants, the interleaved slabs having a stepwise-varying height between adjacent slabs. The antenna may be mounted on a printed circuit substrate at a 45 degree angle to an excitation slot. The antenna may be compact and easily manufactured using 3-D printing techniques.

An onboard antenna, a radio equipment and an electronic device. The onboard antenna includes a dielectric substrate, an antenna and a metal block, wherein the antenna is located on the dielectric substrate, a projection of the metal block on a plane where the dielectric substrate is located is not overlapped with a projection of the antenna on the plane where the dielectric substrate is located, the metal block is located on the dielectric substrate in a polarization direction of the antenna, and a distance between a metal edge of the metal block on a side close to the antenna and the antenna is greater than a coupling threshold. Using this onboard antenna, an influence of surface waves on the pattern can be suppressed to a certain extent by arranging the metal block, and a jitter of the antenna pattern can be reduced.

A stereolithography method of manufacture of a polymer structure having a spatially gradient dielectric constant, including: providing a volume of a liquid, radiation-curable composition; irradiating a portion of the liquid, radiation-curable composition with activating radiation in a pattern to form a layer of the polymer structure; contacting the layer with the liquid, radiation-curable composition; irradiating the liquid, radiation-curable composition with activating radiation in a pattern to form a second layer on the first layer; and repeating the contacting and irradiating to form the polymer structure, wherein the polymer structure comprises a plurality of unit cells wherein each unit cell is integrally connected with an adjacent unit cell, each unit cell is defined by a plurality of trusses formed by the irradiation, wherein the trusses are integrally connected with each other at their respective ends, and the trusses of each unit cell are dimensioned to provide the spatially gradient dielectric constant.

Magnetodielectric (MD) metamaterials have a magnetodielectric (MD) substrate of a ferrite composition or composite having a characteristic impedance matching an impedance of free space and at least one frequency selective surface (FSS). The FSS has a plurality of frequency selective surface elements disposed in a pattern and supported on the MD substrate. The FSS has a conducting composition and is configured to permit one or more of transmission, reflection, or absorption at a selected resonant frequency or selected frequency band. Articles incorporating magnetodielectric metamaterials are provided.

An array antenna includes a ground plane, a first dielectric element, a second dielectric element, a first radiator, and a second radiator. The first dielectric element includes a first surface and a second surface, and a first included angle is formed between the first surface and the second surface. The second dielectric element includes a third surface and a fourth surface, and a second included angle is formed between the third surface and the fourth surface. The first surface is adjacent to the third surface. The first radiator includes a first part and a second part. The first part is disposed on the first surface, and the second part is disposed on the second surface. The second radiator includes a third part and a fourth part. The third part is disposed on the third surface, and the fourth part is disposed on the fourth surface.

An electronic device may be provided with an antenna module having a substrate. A phased antenna array of dielectric resonator antennas and a radio-frequency integrated circuit for the array may be mounted to one or more surfaces of the substrate. The dielectric resonator antennas may include dielectric columns excited by feed probes. The feed probes may be printed onto sidewalls of the dielectric columns or may be pressed against the sidewalls by biasing structures. A plastic substrate may be molded over each dielectric column and each of the feed probes in the array. The feed probes may cover multiple polarizations. The array may include elements for covering multiple frequency bands. The dielectric columns may be aligned a longitudinal axis and may be rotated at a non-zero and non-perpendicular angle with respect to the longitudinal axis.

An electromagnetic device includes: an electrically conductive ground structure; at least one dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) disposed on the ground structure; at least one electromagnetic (EM) beam shaper disposed proximate a corresponding one of the DRA; and, at least one signal feed disposed electromagnetically coupled to a corresponding one of the DRA. The at least one EM beam shaper having: an electrically conductive horn; a body of dielectric material having a dielectric constant that varies across the body of dielectric material in a specific direction; or, both the electrically conductive horn and the body of dielectric material.

An antenna module of a wireless communication system is provided. The antenna module includes a radiator comprising a top face to which a radio wave is radiated, a dielectric material disposed on a bottom face of the radiator, the bottom face of the radiator being opposite to the top face of the radiator, a feeding unit disposed on a bottom face of the dielectric material, the feeding unit being configured to supply an electric signal to the radiator through the dielectric material, and a support unit disposed on the bottom face of the dielectric material, the support unit comprising a metallic material.

The radar system includes a split-block assembly comprising a first portion and a second portion. The first portion and the second portion form a seam, where the first portion has a top side opposite the seam and the second portion has a bottom side opposite the seam. The system includes at least one port located on a bottom side of the second portion. Additionally, the system includes radiating elements located on the top side of the first portion, wherein the radiating elements are arranged in a plurality of arrays. Yet further, the system includes a set of waveguides in the split-block assembly configured to couple each array to at least one port. Furthermore, the split-block assembly is made from a polymer and where at least the set of waveguides, the at least one port, and the plurality of radiating elements include metal on a surface of the polymer.

A communication device includes an antenna positioned within the communication device and configured to radiate a radiofrequency communication signal with a first frequency band and a conductive chassis containing the antenna within the communication device. A conductive wall portion of the conductive chassis forms a conductive exterior surface of the communication device. The antenna is positioned in proximity to the conductive wall portion to radiate the radiofrequency communication signal through the conductive wall portion. The conductive wall portion includes a pattern of apertures. At least one dimension of each aperture is less than or equal to a wavelength of a center frequency of the first frequency band.