Waveguide with High Dielectric Resonators for Signal Amplification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current waveguide technologies face inefficiencies in energy transfer and signal propagation due to energy loss and dispersion, particularly in high-frequency electromagnetic waves, as they fail to effectively utilize high dielectric resonators to enhance signal power and maintain low-loss transmission.
Innovation Solution
A waveguide incorporating a base material with low relative permittivity and a plurality of high dielectric resonators (HDRs) spaced to allow efficient energy transfer, where HDRs are crafted to resonate at specific frequencies, enabling electromagnetic waves to be amplified by more than three times the initial power, and are electromagnetically coupled with transceivers for efficient signal transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If conventional waveguide technologies are used for high-frequency electromagnetic wave transmission, then signal propagation is achieved, but energy loss and dispersion occur due to inefficient energy transfer
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies resonance principles by designing dielectric resonators that oscillate at specific frequencies to match the electromagnetic wave frequency. These resonators are strategically positioned within the waveguide to create resonant coupling, which enhances energy transfer efficiency and reduces energy loss during signal propagation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the physical and electrical parameters of the waveguide by introducing dielectric resonators with specific permittivity values, sizes, and spacing. By optimizing these parameters, the waveguide achieves enhanced energy confinement and reduced dispersion, thereby improving signal propagation efficiency while minimizing energy loss.
2Power
If high dielectric resonators are introduced to enhance signal power, then energy transfer efficiency improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the waveguide structure by introducing discrete dielectric resonators at specific intervals rather than using a continuous complex structure. Each resonator is independently designed with optimized dimensions and permittivity, allowing for modular fabrication and assembly while achieving enhanced signal power through cumulative resonant effects.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs composite material structures by combining the base waveguide material with high-permittivity dielectric resonator materials. This composite approach enables the waveguide to achieve enhanced signal power and energy confinement properties while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure that is easier to manufacture compared to fully complex designs.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution significantly enhances signal power and reduces loss in waveguide transmission, allowing for efficient propagation of electromagnetic waves, particularly in millimeter wave frequencies, by leveraging the resonance properties of HDRs to concentrate energy and maintain low leakage into the base material.
Implementation Method 1
high dielectric resonators (HDRs) spaced in such a way as to allow energy transfer between HDRs. HDRs are objects that are crafted to resonate at a particular frequency
Implementation Method 2
a waveguide having a base material having a low relative permittivity and a plurality of high dielectric resonators
Data Source
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AI summary
At least some aspects of the present disclosure feature a waveguide for propagating an electromagnetic wave. The waveguide includes a base material and a plurality of resonators disposed in a pattern, the plurality of resonators having a resonance frequency. Each of the plurality of resonators has a relative permittivity greater than a relative permittivity of the base material. At least two of the plurality of resonators are spaced according to a lattice constant that defines a distance between a center of a first one of the resonators and a center of a neighboring second one of the resonators.