Enabling Technology for Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Systems on Mobile Military Platforms: Antennas, Switches, and Packaging

This project has addressed a number of critical and practical challenges facing the direct integration of RF MEMS switches with reconfigurable antennas. Current designs have been adjusted to account for limitations presented by fabrication techniques available at Georgia Tech. Other antenna designs that require no vias in the layers where the RF MEMS switches reside continue to be developed. We have also demonstrated the real system-level benefits of antenna pattern reconfigurability in MIMO systems through our publications and with collaborations with members of industry e.g., Intel Corporation.