Patent ID: 11862854
Assignee: THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An antenna element, comprising:
a substrate;
a feeding source disposed on the substrate;
a driven patch disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the feeding source; and
a parasitic patch disposed on the substrate and physically separated from the driven patch by a first gap,
wherein the driven patch comprises a main patch and an inset feedline extending in a first direction from the main patch towards the feeding source,
wherein a length of the parasitic patch, taken in the first direction, is smaller than a length of the driven patch, taken in the first direction,
wherein the driven patch is disposed between, in the first direction, the feeding source and the parasitic patch,
wherein the feeding source comprises a coplanar waveguide (CPW) including a first source patch, a second source patch, and a microstrip feedline disposed between the first source patch and the second source patch, and
wherein the antenna element is a dual-band antenna element for operation at a first frequency of 78 gigahertz (GHz) and a second frequency of 94 GHz.