SBIR/STTR Research Award
Efficient Small Antennas
Award amount
$98,659Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- AGILE RF, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2009-03-20
- Contract end date
- 2009-11-30
- UEI
- FSBWEJGXM136
- Solicitation number
- 2008.2
- Topic code
- SB082-051
Research abstract
As antennas decrease in size their efficiency and bandwidth decrease. In order to improve the efficiency and frequency coverage of small antennas one must find a way to improve upon the Chu limit. Agile's proven approach is to use tunability to improve the Chu limit thereby allowing a small antenna to be tuned over broad frequency ranges by using tunable and reactive elements in the matching circuits. This technique has been demonstrated to greatly enhance the size and performance of handset antennas.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- High Performance Complex Oxide Thin Film Materials to Enable Switchable Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators (FBAR) for Low-Loss Radio Frequency Devices
- Series Resistance Reduction in Tunable Radio Frequency (RF) Capacitors
- Improved electrodes for low-loss radio frequency devices
- Tunable Filters for the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS)
- Development of Advanced Thin-Film Microwave Filters
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Efficient Small Antennas
- Miniature Efficient Metamaterial Antenna (1000-144)
- Efficient Small Antennas
- Efficient Small Antennas
- Ultra-Compact Highly Efficient Wideband Antenna Using Time-Varying Matching Network
Research funding history
16 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2001–2011). Reported award amounts total $4,876,531. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense