5772results about "Antennas" patented technology

Provided is a method for tracking a satellite. The method includes: acquiring trajectory information and antenna attitude information of a COTM device; calculating a theoretical pointing angle of an antenna beam for a target satellite based on an orbit parameter of the target satellite and the trajectory information; acquiring an actual pointing angle of the antenna beam by correcting, based on the antenna attitude information, the theoretical pointing angle of the antenna beam; controlling, based on the actual pointing angle of the antenna beam, a receiving phased array antenna to form an antenna beam; acquiring data information of the satellite signal, and correcting an actual pointing angle of the current antenna beam; controlling a transmitting phased array antenna to form an antenna beam based on a corrected actual pointing angle; establishing a communication link and updating ephemeris data of the target satellite.

A reflective device includes a control element, and a reflective surface with a plurality of reflective elements. Each reflective element of the plurality of reflective elements includes an antenna element and a phase shifting arrangement and is under control of the control element so as to reflect a radio-frequency (RF) signal incident on the reflective surface with an adjustable phase shift. The plurality of reflective elements are connected to the control element via a cell selection bus system that interconnects the plurality of reflective elements.

A reflective device includes a control element and a reflective surface. The reflective surface includes a plurality of reflective elements, where each reflective element of the plurality of reflective elements has an antenna element and a phase shifter and is under control of the control element so as to reflect a radio-frequency (RF) signal incident on the reflective surface with an adjustable phase shift. An operating frequency of the reflective surface is configurable by at least a subset of the plurality of reflective elements being divided into a number of sub-elements that are individually switched via the control element from an activated state, in which a respective sub-element contributes to the reflection of the incident RF signal, to a deactivated state, in which the respective sub-element does not contribute to the reflection of the incident RF signal, and vice-versa.

Disclosed is a method for fast automatic calibration of a phased array based on a residual neural network. A phase setting matrix is set and an amplitude and a phase of a array far-field complex signal are measured with a network analyzer to obtain an amplitude and phase vector of the array far-field complex signal. A real part, an imaginary part, and a magnitude of the far-field measured complex signal value are separated and normalized, and mapped to RGB three-channel image data. Datasets are automatically generated according to a preset amplitude-phase error range by a simulation software, the datasets are proportionally divided into a training set and a test set to be input into the residual neural network for training to obtain a calibration model. Measured data is input into the calibration model for automatic estimation of the amplitude-phase error of the phased array.

The invention relates to the technical field of electromagnetic materials, and discloses a lossy multimode resonant metasurface unit and a multifunctional active coding wave absorber. The lossy multimode resonant metasurface unit comprises a lossy metal pattern layer, a supporting dielectric layer, an impedance matching dielectric layer and a metal ground layer which are sequentially arranged from top to bottom; the lossy metal pattern layer comprises a multi-mode resonator and a radio frequency PIN diode, the multi-mode resonator is used for realizing a plurality of resonance modes and playing a role in electromagnetic wave frequency selection, and the radio frequency PIN diode is used for playing a role of an adjustable resistor and adjusting the electromagnetic wave loss so as to realize intensity adjustment of reflected electromagnetic waves; every two adjacent multi-mode resonators are connected in a cascading mode through a radio frequency PIN diode and are combined to form a closed-loop pattern. The multifunctional electromagnetic wave absorber is simple in structure, has the constant phase scattering cancellation characteristic, and can independently regulate and control the reflection amplitude so as to solve the technical problem of an existing multifunctional electromagnetic wave absorber.

The invention discloses an antenna control method and device and electronic equipment, and relates to the field of multimode cooperative communication, and the method comprises the steps: analyzing the characteristics of the environment around an antenna, generating an optimal polarization strategy in combination with a characteristic analysis result and a polarization switching prediction algorithm, transmitting a test signal through an antenna array controller, and recording a channel impulse response, time inversion processing is carried out on the channel impulse response, a time inversion signal and a phase compensation parameter are combined to generate a reverse emission signal, the reverse emission signal is reemitted, an optimal polarization strategy is combined to adjust the polarization state of each array element, a beam forming parameter set is generated, and the phase and amplitude of antenna equipment are adjusted through a controller. And monitoring signal strength and transmission efficiency, and generating a signal transmission performance data report. The antenna polarization switching method and device solve the technical problems that an antenna polarization switching algorithm cannot adapt to a dynamic electromagnetic environment and a multipath effect, the stability is insufficient, the signal strength is unstable, and the communication quality is affected in the related technology.

The invention relates to a heterogeneous honeycomb wave-absorbing structure, and belongs to the field of stealth materials. The structure is composed of a plurality of hexagonal honeycomb units comprising a plurality of different electromagnetic materials, the incident direction of electromagnetic waves mainly aims at radial incidence, large effective depth exists in the direction, and the structural layer is in uneven periodic distribution. The propagation path of electromagnetic waves in the structure is expanded, multiple reflection is easier to occur, and absorption of the electromagnetic waves is facilitated; the heterogeneous honeycomb wave-absorbing structure is divided into four layers in the radial direction, and the dielectric constant of each layer of absorbing material is in gradient change on the whole, so that the heterogeneous honeycomb wave-absorbing structure has a better impedance matching characteristic; according to the design method, the particle swarm optimization algorithm is utilized to optimize the wave-absorbing material in the optimization layer, so that the degree of freedom of the honeycomb wave-absorbing structure is increased, and the advantage of radial length is fully utilized. The heterogeneous honeycomb wave-absorbing structure provided by the invention meets impedance matching, has broadband wave-absorbing performance, and can realize good absorption of 2-18GHz electromagnetic waves, so that the heterogeneous honeycomb wave-absorbing structure has greater application potential in related fields.

The invention relates to the field of satellite communication, and discloses a parabolic antenna pointing tracking method in an inter-satellite communication scene, and the method comprises the following steps: carrying out the attitude initialization, dynamic prediction, error compensation and closed-loop control, and achieving the high-precision satellite tracking of an antenna. The method adapts to large dynamic changes of target satellites and ensures stable and reliable communication; the invention discloses a parabolic antenna pointing tracking system in an inter-satellite communication scene. The system comprises an antenna angle sensor module, a signal receiving module, a prediction module, an error compensation module and a closed-loop control module. According to the method, orbit prediction, an extrapolation algorithm, adaptive control and a closed-loop feedback mechanism are fused, and high-precision and high-robustness antenna satellite tracking is realized. The method can adapt to large dynamic change of a target satellite, reduces dependence on real-time position information, still keeps stable communication under the condition of orbit sudden change or data missing, and improves system reliability and engineering practicability.

The invention relates to the technical field of wave-absorbing materials. Specifically, the invention relates to a ferrite composite multi-walled carbon nanotube wave-absorbing material and a preparation method thereof. The invention also relates to electronic equipment containing the ferrite composite multi-walled carbon nanotube wave-absorbing material. The ferrite composite multi-walled carbon nanotube wave-absorbing material prepared by the invention comprises a ferrite magnetic material with magnetic loss and a multi-walled carbon nanotube material with electrical loss, and the composite material introduces multiple electromagnetic energy loss modes through unique structural design and component synergy, so that the wave-absorbing performance of the material is enhanced. In addition, the preparation method disclosed by the invention is simple in process, low in requirement on equipment, green and environment-friendly, and free from any toxic and harmful by-products.

A reflective device includes a control element and an array of reflective elements. Each reflective element of the array of reflective elements has an antenna element and a phase shifter and is under control of the control element so as to reflect a radio-frequency (RF) signal incident on the each reflective element with an adjustable phase shift, where different phase shifts are realized by the phase shifter channeling the RF signal into a specific one of a number of different delay lines. Each of the different delay lines includes an extension unit configured to extract a portion of a power of the RF signal channeled into the respective specific one delay line by the phase shifter and to measure or estimate the voltage, the current and / or the power of the extracted portion of the RF signal.

A lightweight absorption-transmission integrated metamaterial to electromagnetic waves with polarization stability and wide-incident-angle stability, which has a symmetric structure including at least one square frequency-selective structure-unit arranged periodically. The square frequency-selective structure-unit includes a first dielectric substrate, a metal array structure layer, a second dielectric substrate, a first carbon-based conductive film array structure layer, a third dielectric substrate, and a second carbon-based conductive film array structure layer, which are laminated in sequence with the first dielectric substrate as the bottom. A method for preparing such lightweight absorption-transmission metamaterial to electromagnetic waves is also provided.

Mechanisms for adjusting atoms of an Intelligent Reflective Surface (IRS) are provided. A method is performed by a controller configured to control an IRS comprising an array of atoms, each having an individually adjustable phase shift and gain. At least some of the atoms are provided with a measurement sensor. The method comprises obtaining, from the measurement sensors, measurements of received power of a signal transmitted from a user equipment and received by the atoms and determining, by a gradient in received power between two of the measurement sensors is larger than a threshold value, that the user equipment is in near-field of the IRS. The method comprises, as a result thereof, adjusting the phase shift of a first subset of the atoms for reflection at the IRS of subsequent communication between a network node and the user equipment when the user equipment is in the near-field of the IRS.

The invention discloses a broadband wave-absorbing material based on an MAX-phase metasurface structure and an impedance matching optimization method of the broadband wave-absorbing material. The wave-absorbing material comprises an MAX-phase ceramic substrate and periodic metasurface structures which are arranged on the surface of the MAX-phase ceramic substrate in an array mode and composed of conductive resonance units. The resonance units are isolated through gaps, an equivalent R1L1C1 series resonance circuit is formed in an electromagnetic field, and a base body is equivalent to a parallel resistor R2. By establishing an equivalent circuit model and optimizing parameters R1, L1, C1 and R2, impedance matching of the wave-absorbing material in a target frequency band can be regulated and controlled, so that the wave-absorbing material at least has an absorption peak of which the reflection loss is less than-10 dB. According to the optimization method, electromagnetic simulation and circuit simulation are combined, optimized circuit parameters are reversely mapped into structure geometric parameters, material preparation is guided, and accurate design and broadband absorption of the wave absorbing performance are achieved.

The invention discloses a dual-frequency / broadband switchable dynamic tuning metamaterial terahertz absorber which comprises M * N terahertz absorption units of a multi-layer structure, the M * N terahertz absorption units of the multi-layer structure are distributed in an M * N two-dimensional mode, and M and N are positive integers. Each terahertz absorption unit with the multi-layer structure comprises a metal substrate, a dielectric layer and a resonance layer which are sequentially arranged from bottom to top; the dielectric layer and the metal substrate are square and have the same side length; the resonance layer comprises a single-layer graphene layer with a hollow cross, and a solid cross-shaped vanadium dioxide layer is embedded in the hollow part of the single-layer graphene layer with the hollow cross; and the appearance of the single-layer graphene layer with the hollow cross is cross-shaped. The absorber can be dynamically tuned, has the characteristic of polarization insensitivity, and can keep stable absorption in an incidence angle range of 0-60 degrees. The invention further discloses a preparation method of the dual-frequency / broadband switchable dynamic tuning metamaterial terahertz absorber.

The invention provides a beam forming system which can be applied to the fields of wireless communication systems, automatic driving, artificial intelligence and the like. And small-scale, low-power-consumption and fast-response two-dimensional beam forming can be realized. The system comprises a first optical diffraction module and an array of second optical diffraction modules, the first optical diffraction module comprising at least one input port and a plurality of output ports, each second optical diffraction module in the array of second optical diffraction modules comprising one input port and a plurality of output ports. The first optical diffraction module is used for receiving at least one path of first signal light and generating multiple paths of second signal light with different phases based on the at least one path of first signal light. Each second optical diffraction module is used for receiving one path of second signal light in the multiple paths of second signal light and generating multiple paths of third signal light with different phases based on one path of second signal light, and the multiple paths of third signal light are used for generating multiple paths of first radio frequency signals.

The invention belongs to the technical field of radar wave-absorbing materials, and discloses a double-sided wave-absorbing broadband stealth composite material and a preparation method thereof. The broadband stealth composite material with the double-sided wave absorbing function comprises a non-metal-based composite material body and at least five metamaterial layers arranged in the thickness direction of the non-metal-based composite material body at intervals. The number of the metamaterial layers is an odd number, a middle metamaterial layer is arranged in the middle of the metamaterial layers in the thickness direction, and the rest metamaterial layers are symmetrically distributed on the two sides of the middle metamaterial layer; the metamaterial layer comprises conductive pattern units which are periodically arranged; the relative dielectric constant of the nonmetal-based composite material body is not greater than 10; the double-sided wave-absorbing broadband stealth composite material does not contain a metal reflecting layer. When electromagnetic waves with the frequency of 1-18 GHz vertically enter the material, the transmissivity of the material is small (smaller than-13 dB, namely smaller than 5%), and meanwhile the material has low reflectivity in a broadband. And the preparation method is simple to operate and easy to realize large-scale production.

Embodiments described relate to a system for material detection and identification, The system may include a transmitter unit configured to transmit an RF signal at a resonance frequency for a material. The system may also include a phased array antenna assembly, the phased array antenna assembly configured to receive a response signal. The system may also include a receiver unit configured to analyze the response signal and to identify the material to a user if the presence of the material is indicated by the resonance characteristics. The techniques described herein relate to a method for material detection and identification. The method may include configuring a transmit signal for parameters to detect a material; sending the transmit signal to a phase shifter; transmitting, using a phased array antenna assembly, an RF signal at a resonance frequency for the material; processing the response signal; and outputting an identification of the material.

The present invention relates to the field of electronic devices of wireless communication systems. Disclosed is an ultra-wideband and high-protection-efficiency filtering energy selective surface, comprising one or more layers of reflecting surfaces; each reflecting surface is mainly composed of a plurality of metal sheets which are located on the same plane, have the same shape and are arranged in central symmetry; a gap for electrical isolation is formed between every two adjacent metal sheets; each gap is provided with a PIN diode; the anodes and cathodes of all the PIN diodes are arranged in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction; and all the gaps form an interconnected gap structure on the plane where the reflecting surface is located. The ultra-wideband and high-protection-efficiency filtering energy selective surface can be achieved by a first-order filtering energy selective surface unit or a second-order filtering energy selective surface unit. The filtering energy selective surface of the present invention has a small surface thickness and a simple structure, can achieve fast roll-off filtering for low-power signals, achieve an ultra-wide suppression stopband, and achieve ultra-wideband and high-efficiency protection for high-power electromagnetic waves.

The present disclosure provides a frequency selective reflector reflecting electromagnetic waves in a particular frequency band to a direction different from a regular reflection direction, the frequency selective reflector including a plurality of regions and a function of adjusting a reflected beam profile.

The invention belongs to the technical field of micro-nano processing, and particularly relates to a preparation method and application of a metal micro-nano tube array. Comprising the following steps: preparing a metal layer on the surface of a substrate; coining glue is sprayed on the surface of the metal layer, then coining is conducted through a template, and a micro glue column array is formed after curing; a plasma etching process is adopted, the micro glue column array is used as a mask, the metal layer exposed out of the gaps in the bottom of the micro glue column array is etched, and a structure with the micro glue columns wrapped by metal is formed; and removing the rubber columns in the structure of the metal-coated micro rubber columns to obtain the metal micro-nano tube array. According to the invention, a residual-layer-free imprinting technology is adopted, the problem of glue layer residue in traditional imprinting is avoided, and the etching uniformity is improved. A plasma dynamic balance process is adopted, the side wall redeposition effect of etching by-products is utilized, and the metal micro-nano tubes are formed in a self-assembly mode. The prepared metal micro-nano tube array has high aspect ratio compatibility, and the nano tube array with the aspect ratio as high as 10: 1 can be realized.

The invention discloses a metasurface filtering antenna with high out-of-band rejection. The metasurface filtering antenna comprises a first dielectric substrate, a bonding layer and a second dielectric substrate which are sequentially arranged from top to bottom, wherein the central position of the upper surface of the first dielectric substrate is provided with a metasurface structure, the metasurface structure comprises four same rectangular metal patches, and the four rectangular metal patches are arranged in a 2 * 2 array; the upper surface of the second dielectric substrate is of a defected ground structure, and a rectangular gap and four U-shaped grooves are etched in the center of the defected ground structure, wherein the four U-shaped grooves are symmetrically formed in the two sides of the rectangular gap at equal intervals; the lower surface of the second dielectric substrate is a feed structure, and the feed structure comprises a microstrip line and an I-shaped branch strip connected with the microstrip line; the first dielectric substrate and the second dielectric substrate are connected through a bonding layer. The metasurface filtering antenna can achieve good filtering and radiation performance in a millimeter wave frequency band, and meanwhile is simple in structure and low in machining difficulty, thereby being beneficial to achieving miniaturization design of a millimeter wave system.

A reconfigurable intelligent surface. The reconfigurable intelligent surface comprises a three-layer structure, comprising an artificial microstructure array capable of reflection and transmission within a specific frequency band range. By applying an external voltage to control the on / off of a semiconductor switch, an original phase shift structure is changed, ultimately achieving phase control of reflection and transmission. In addition, the structure is simple, can be realized by a microfabrication means, involves a mature process, and is easy to implement in high-frequency bands such as millimeter-wave and terahertz bands.

Systems, apparatus, processes, and computer-readable media for wireless communication are disclosed. For example, according to aspects described herein, a reconfigurable smart surface (RIS) may receive a configuration message including an indication to reduce a gain of at least a portion of a reflected beam. The RIS may generate reflection coefficients for a metadata element of the RIS based on the configuration message. The RIS may configure the metadata element based on the reflection coefficient. For example, based on configuring the metadata element, the RIS may generate or generate the reflected beam (e.g., a sensing reflected beam or an interfering reflected beam) by reflecting a sensing signal received from a sensing transmitter device.

The invention relates to the technical field of artificial electromagnetic metasurfaces, in particular to a full-space multifunctional terahertz metasurface. The metasurface is composed of a plurality of metasurface units arranged periodically, and each metasurface unit sequentially comprises a first metal structure layer, a first middle dielectric layer, a grating layer, a second middle dielectric layer and a second metal structure layer from top to bottom. The first metal structure layer and the second metal structure layer are the same in structure and each comprise two C-shaped metal rings, and the two C-shaped metal rings are connected in a staggered mode to form a disconnected and staggered S shape. The first intermediate dielectric layer and the second intermediate dielectric layer are consistent in thickness; the grating layer comprises vanadium dioxide and copper which are alternately arranged, and multifunctional dynamic regulation and control of transmission, reflection and the whole space are achieved by controlling phase change of the vanadium dioxide. The metasurface provided by the invention can respectively realize the functions of polarization conversion, linear-circular polarization wave conversion, circular dichroism, asymmetric transmission and the like in different states.

The invention provides a single / double-waveband switchable terahertz absorber, which comprises a reflecting layer, a dielectric layer and a pattern layer which are sequentially stacked, and is characterized in that the pattern layer comprises a first metal ring layer, a second metal ring layer and at least one VO2 layer, and the first metal ring layer and the second metal ring layer are flush with the bottom of the VO2 layer and are respectively in contact with the dielectric layer; the first metal circular ring layer is arranged in the second metal circular ring layer, one side of any VO2 layer is in contact with the outer side wall of the first metal circular ring layer, and the other side of any VO2 layer is in contact with the inner side wall of the first metal circular ring layer. According to the invention, free switching between single / double wavebands can be realized, the structure is simple, polarization is not sensitive, wide-angle absorption is realized, and the application requirements in the fields of THz communication, sensing, stealth, modulation and the like are met.

The invention discloses an in-orbit pointing deviation correction method for a two-dimensional mechanical antenna oriented to a panel satellite spot beam. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring an azimuth angle, a pitch angle and telemetry information of an antenna pointing to a ground station in real time in an in-orbit manner; reversely calculating a gain difference value between the actual signal and the theoretical signal; judging whether the gain difference meets the pointing precision requirement or not, and if not, inversely calculating the deviation angle of the actual pointing vector and the theoretical pointing vector and the actual pointing vector; a Gauss-Newton method is adopted to solve an optimal theoretical pointing vector; resolving an installation matrix pointed by the matching theory and adjusting an antenna installation matrix; and repeating the steps to form a closed loop until the gain difference meets the precision requirement. According to the method, three-dimensional installation matrix correction is adopted to replace traditional zero correction, closed-loop feedback and nonlinear optimization are combined, multi-source error high-precision compensation is achieved, the engineering feasibility is high, the in-orbit multi-satellite batch correction requirement of the panel satellite is met, and the communication system reliability and the data transmission rate are remarkably improved.

The invention discloses an ultra-large octave wave absorber based on a photoconductive material, and belongs to the field of electromagnetic metasurfaces and metamaterials. Comprising a light response wave-absorbing metasurface and a light driving module capable of projecting different patterns on the surface of the light response wave-absorbing metasurface, array wave-absorbing units of different sizes are obtained on the light response wave-absorbing metasurface by switching the projected patterns, and impedance of a target frequency band is matched by changing equivalent capacitance / inductance of a wave-absorbing unit structure; the light driving module can project a preset light pattern on the light response wave-absorbing metasurface, so that the equivalent impedance distribution of the light response wave-absorbing metasurface is changed; according to the light response wave-absorbing metasurface, the conductivity distribution of the metasurface units is changed through light control, and the wave-absorbing frequency band is adjusted in real time, that is, dynamic adjustment of the wave-absorbing performance is achieved through non-contact light control. According to the invention, the limitation of narrow bandwidth and passive fixation of a traditional wave absorber is broken through, and electromagnetic wave control with ultra-large octave, high absorptivity and real-time reconfigurability is realized.

The invention belongs to the technical field of electromagnetic wave absorption, and particularly discloses a three-dimensional structure wave-absorbing metamaterial which comprises a first three-dimensional structure layer, a second three-dimensional structure layer and a metal backboard which are sequentially arranged from top to bottom, the first three-dimensional structure layer comprises a first top layer and a first three-dimensional absorption enhancing framework arranged on the lower surface of the first top layer, and the second three-dimensional structure layer comprises a second top layer and a second three-dimensional absorption enhancing framework arranged on the lower surface of the second top layer. A first high-impedance metasurface and a second high-impedance metasurface are loaded on the lower surface of the first three-dimensional absorption enhancement skeleton at intervals; the second three-dimensional structure layer comprises a second top layer and a second three-dimensional absorption enhancement skeleton arranged on the lower surface of the second top layer, and a third high-impedance metasurface is loaded on the top surface of the second top layer. By adopting the three-dimensional structure wave-absorbing metamaterial, ultra-wideband absorption and large-angle stability can be achieved under the condition that the thickness is small, light and thin wideband application of a wave-absorbing body is facilitated, and the three-dimensional structure wave-absorbing metamaterial has great practical value in the field of electromagnetic compatibility.