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Deployable satellite reflector with a low passive intermodulation design

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NRL

A passive intermodulation modulation reducing structure for a multicarrier reflector system, including a plurality of flexible reflector gores, each gore having a thin layer of conductive metal, a first layer of dielectric material laminated to one face of the conductive metal, and a second layer of dielectric material laminated to an opposite face of the conductive metal. Capacitive coupling joins the reflector's RF components. The structure can be a deployable parabolic reflector for a satellite antenna.

Inventors: 
Nurnberger, Michael W.; Amend, Christopher P.
Patent Number: 
Technical domain: 
Communications
FIle Date: 
2013-01-07
Grant Date: 
2015-08-18
Grant time: 
953 days
Grant time percentile rank: 
17
Claim count percentile rank: 
4
Citations percentile rank: 
1
'Cited by' percentile rank: 
1
Assignee: 
US NAVY