Superconducting antennas

It is noted that the advent of high-T/sub c/ superconducting materials has prompted a reexamination of the opportunities for improving antenna performance. Areas where superconductors have potential are considered, including superdirective arrays; large millimeter wavelength arrays; electrically small antennas; matching of electrically small antennas, including large transmitting antennas, and of superdirective arrays; switched line or single line phasers for electronic scanning of arrays; and traveling wave arrays where the transmission line phase velocity controls the beam angle. It is concluded that arrays above 5 GHz will benefit from low conduction, and probably also from low dielectric losses. Matching of electrically short antennas, both small (high-frequency) and large (low-frequency), and of arrays of moderate superdirectivity, will allow significant efficiency improvement.<<ETX>>

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