Patent ID: 8674891
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: H01Q

Abstract:
1. A metamaterial antenna device comprising: a substrate; a plurality of electrically conductive parts formed on the substrate, including: a plurality of tuning elements formed on the substrate, wherein the electrically conductive parts are configured to form a composite right and left handed (CRLH) metamaterial antenna structure that generates a first plurality of frequency resonances when none of the tuning elements is connected to any of the electrically conductive parts, wherein the first plurality of frequency resonances include a first left handed (LH) mode resonance and a first low right handed (RH) mode resonance in a low band and a first high RH mode resonance in a high band, and wherein one or more of the tuning elements, when electrically connected to the conductive parts, reconfigure the CRLH MTM antenna structure to generate a second plurality of frequency resonances different from the first plurality of frequency resonances.