Miniaturization of RF antennas

Continuously growing number of satellite entertainment broadcasting from one side and increasing availability of media players devices, TVs from other side makes satellite television accessible and affordable. However, the major disadvantage of satellite TV antenna is the requirement of very precise manual positioning and tuning during the installation. The other disadvantage of the regular satellite dish is the size of the satellite dish. All those disadvantages makes satellite TV not accessible to all people, who have a problem with space, required to satellite dish placement or there is impossible to perform antenna positioning and tuning. In fact those people are limited in use to regular TV with bad reception or use the cable TV and pay high rates. In addition, the growing number of mobile media centers, placed in the cars, opening new segment of satellite TV implementations. Obviously, the regular civil satellite antennas could not be placed on the cars; moreover, currently developed civil flat car antennas required stabilization mechanism, thus highly increasing the price.
The flat ultra slim micro satellite antenna (FUS-MSA) can close those gaps. The flat and ultra slim design of the antenna allows easy and almost invisible installation almost in every place: walls, windows, car roofs and etc. FUS-MSA can also utilize phase array technology, allowing automatic tuning and homing, thus cancelling the requirement of manual positioning and tuning.
The new type of antenna utilized the highly innovative smart material technology allowing reducing antennas size by several times. During the 2010, RI³ successfully developed new kind of the highly innovative smart material technology.
The new material was integrated and tested in Wi-Fi antennas. The comparison was done between regular antenna and antenna based on new material. Both antennas have the same size. The comparison shows, that reception range was increased by 3 times.
The new technology was also tested in other consumer electronic products. For example, using the new antenna in the wireless 2.4 Ghz phone increased reception range by 50 percent.
RI³ also successfully designs the miniature wide-band antenna. This kind of antenna can provide the basis for flat ultra slim micro satellite antenna.
The FUS-MSA project will adopt the already patented technology for building new generation of satellite antennas. Currently available on the market satellite antennas are usually not suitable for any environment and cannot be placed in every place.
RI³ implemented and tested the prototype of the wide-band antenna. The test results shows, that this kind of antenna satisfies to all satellite antenna requirements.