Abstract: Apparatus for generating spin waves comprising a body (102) of magnetic material and an elastic wave generator (120), wherein the body (102) has a surface (108) and the elastic wave generator (120) is arranged to transmit elastic waves so that they propagate through the body (102) towards the surface (108) and are reflected at the surface to form a standing elastic wave in the body (102), thereby generating spin waves.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a low-cost beam scanning antenna and method of beam scanning in which two phase shifts are performed in an array of antenna elements. One of the phase shifts is performed in discrete stepwise increments in a feedline of the antenna element and another phase shift is performed by radiating a signal through variable phase shifters. The amount of phase shift provided by the variable phase shifters is varied by changing a rotation angle of the variable phase shifters.

Abstract: A wireless power transfer system that transmits electrical power from an electrical power supply to an electrical load using a source transducer and a capture transducer. The wireless power transfer system may be part of a wireless charging system for an electric vehicle. The source resonator coil in the source transducer and the capture resonator coil in the capture transducer are substantially identical and are interchangeable. The structures that hold the resonators in the transducers and the plates that provide a ground plane for the resonators in the source transducer and the capture transducer are also substantially identical and are interchangeable. Each resonator is formed of a carrier-winder, or bobbin, that has two substantially identical and interchangeable halves enclosing a magnetic core and is wound with a wire coil.

Abstract: An improved device and system for power transmission. A power transmission device comprises a primary winding magnetically coupled to a resonant secondary which comprises a plurality of magnetic resonators, each magnetic resonator comprising a magnetic winding. The magnetic resonators are connected in series and arranged so that the magnetic axis of each magnetic resonator is coupled to the primary winding. In operation, a power source supplies alternating current at an operating frequency to the primary of a power transmission device used as a transmitter. A load is coupled to the primary of a power transmission device used as a receiver. Collectors may be coupled to either or both of the transmit or receive device. A return line may be coupled to either or both of the transmit or receive device.

Abstract: A thin film resonator for a wireless power transmission is provided. The thin film resonator may include a first transmission line unit provided as a thin film type, a second transmission line unit also provided as the thin film type, and a capacitor inserted at a predetermined position of the first transmission line unit.

Abstract: A Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) tuned band reject filter using one or more Shunt YIG resonators provides for much wider minimum rejection bandwidths without increasing maximum 3 db bandwidths or spurious response. Various configurations of a tunable shunt YIG tuned band reject filter achieves a wide rejection bandwidth at the low end of the tuning range while keeping the maximum 3 db bandwidth, normally occurring at the high end of the tuning range, to a minimum.

Abstract: One exemplary metamaterial is formed from a plurality of individual unit cells, at least a portion of which have a different permeability than others. The plurality of individual unit cells are arranged to provide a metamaterial having a gradient index along at least one axis. Such metamaterials can be used to form lenses, for example.

Abstract: A Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) tuned band reject filter using one or more Shunt YIG resonators provides for much wider minimum rejection bandwidths without increasing maximum 3 db bandwidths or spurious response. Various configurations of a tunable shunt YIG tuned band reject filter achieves a wide rejection bandwidth at the low end of the tuning range while keeping the maximum 3 db bandwidth, normally occurring at the high end of the tuning range, to a minimum.

Abstract: A tunable resonator assembly includes a resonator coil having an inductance, and a tile residing at a position relative to the resonator coil the position selected to produce a desired change in the inductance of the resonator coil.

Abstract: A microwave resonator device (1), being configured in particular for electron spin resonance measurements, comprises a resonator being resonant with first and second microwave field modes and including first and second resonance sections (7, 8) arranged along a longitudinal axis (2) of the resonator, and a coupling unit being arranged between the first and second resonance sections, wherein the coupling unit includes a conducting plate (16) being arranged on the longitudinal axis (2) and covering a central portion of a cross-sectional area of the resonator, the conducting plate (16) is adapted to adjust a first mode frequency of the first microwave field mode, and the conducting plate (16) is arranged at a field minimum of the second microwave field mode. Furthermore, a method of conducting an electron spin resonance measurement with a sample to be investigated is described.

Abstract: Provided is a resonator for a wireless power transmission, the resonator including a transmission line unit including a plurality of transmission line sheets arranged in parallel, and a capacitor provided at a predetermined position of the transmission line unit.

Abstract: An enclosed resonator includes a generally planar plate having a top side and a bottom side wherein a pocket is recessed into the bottom side to produce a bottom surface and a periphery around the rectangular pocket including a first pair of parallel sides and a second pair of parallel sides, a plurality of generally parallel channels formed into the top side each channel extending generally in a direction of the second pair of parallel sides, a first plurality of holes extending along a first side of the first pair of parallel sides each hole extending from the bottom side to one of the plurality of generally parallel channels, a second plurality of holes extending along a second side of the first pair of parallel sides each hole extending from the bottom side to one of the plurality of generally parallel channels.

Abstract: A nano-resonator device comprising at least one fixed element and at least one mobile element with respect to the fixed element, first electromagnetic means, integrated or fixed on the fixed element, and second electromagnetic means, integrated or fixed on the mobile element, to generate an oscillating movement of the mobile element.

Abstract: Disclosed is a resonator for wireless power transmission used in a mobile device. The resonator includes a substrate, at least one microstrip line, and a magnetic core. The microstrip line is formed on the substrate and is provided at one side thereof with a slit to have an open-loop shape. The magnetic core is formed on the substrate and is disposed on a space defined by the microstrip line to increase coupling strength.

Abstract: A magnetically-tunable filter comprising a filter housing with two tunable resonator spheres made of magnetizable material, which are disposed one above the other in two filter arms. At least one filter arm provides a fin line or slot line disposed on a substrate layer and extending in the direction towards an electrical contact, and a common coupling aperture, thereby connecting the two filter arms to one another. In this context, one resonator sphere is positioned within each filter arm on each of the two sides of the coupling aperture.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electromagnetic wave resonator that is capable of showing surface wave resonance typically as outstanding plasmon resonance and can be manufactured industrially with excellent reproducibility and efficiency by combining currently available microprocessing technologies. The electromagnetic wave resonator of the present invention includes a first negative dielectric surface, a second negative dielectric surface and a positive dielectric thin film disposed between the first and the second negative dielectric surfaces. The positive dielectric thin film has an end face having an electromagnetic wave introduced therefrom. Intensity of the electromagnetic wave having a predetermined wavelength and being introduced from the end face is enhanced in the electromagnetic wave resonator due to resonance of a surface wave having an electric field component in a direction of film thickness of the positive dielectric thin film and without having a cut-off frequency.

Abstract: A band-pass filter includes a photonic crystal having a local mode that generates a pass band in a stop band formed by Bragg reflection, a transmission channel that limits electromagnetic waves propagating in the photonic crystal to a mode in which an amplitude direction of an electrical field is a particular direction; and a magnetic field-applying unit for applying to the photonic crystal a DC magnetic field in a direction perpendicular to a propagation direction of the electromagnetic waves. The photonic crystal includes a periodic structure including a low permittivity dielectric member and a plurality of high permittivity dielectric members periodically arranged in the low permittivity dielectric member so that the Bragg reflection occurs in the periodic structure, and a magnetic member disposed in the periodic structure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a magnetically tunable filter having a filter housing and having two tunable resonator spheres which comprise magnetizable material and are arranged next to one another in two filter branches. Each filter branch comprises a coplanar line arranged on a substrate layer and extending in the direction of an electrical connection, as well as a common coupling opening so that the two filter branches are connected to one another. A resonator sphere is respectively positioned on each side of the coupling opening inside the two filter branches.

Abstract: Described herein are embodiments of a noncontact electric power receiving high-Q device magnetic resonator for an electrically powered vehicle that includes an electric power receiving high-Q magnetic resonator for receiving electric power from another magnetic resonator, which receives electric power from a power source to generate an electromagnetic field, by resonating with said another magnetic resonator through said electromagnetic field.

Abstract: Described herein are improved configurations for a wireless power transfer. Described are methods and designs to reduce and manage heating and heat dissipation in resonator structures. Configuration and orientation of magnetic material as well as heat sinking material with respect to the dipole moment of the resonator is used to reduce and control thermal properties of the resonator structure and reduce the effects of heating on the performance of wireless power transfer.

Abstract: Described herein are configurations for an integrated resonator-shield structure for wireless power transfer. In embodiments a conductor shield is used to shield the resonator from perturbing objects. In embodiments the conductor shield is used for a current return path for the conductors of the resonator. The resonator shield can be divided into separate conductor segments to tailor the current distributions in the conductor shield.

Abstract: Described herein are embodiments of a first resonator with a quality factor, Q1, greater than 100, coupled to an energy source, generating an oscillating near field region, and a second resonator, with a quality factor, Q2, greater than 100, optionally coupled to an energy drain, and moving freely within the near field region of the first resonator. The first resonator and the second resonator may be coupled to transfer electromagnetic energy from said first resonator to said second resonator as the second resonator moves freely within the near field region.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electromagnetic wave resonator that is capable of showing surface wave resonance typically as outstanding plasmon resonance and can be manufactured industrially with excellent reproducibility and efficiency by combining currently available microprocessing technologies. The electromagnetic wave resonator of the present invention includes a first negative dielectric surface, a second negative dielectric surface and a positive dielectric thin film disposed between the first and the second negative dielectric surfaces. The positive dielectric thin film has an end face having an electromagnetic wave introduced therefrom. Intensity of the electromagnetic wave having a predetermined wavelength and being introduced from the end face is enhanced in the electromagnetic wave resonator due to resonance of a surface wave having an electric field component in a direction of film thickness of the positive dielectric thin film and without having a cut-off frequency.

Abstract: A nano-resonator device comprising at least one fixed element and at least one mobile element with respect to the fixed element, first electromagnetic means, integrated or fixed on the fixed element, and second electromagnetic means, integrated or fixed on the mobile element, to generate an oscillating movement of the mobile element.

Abstract: A magnetic field focusing assembly includes a magnetic field generating device configured to generate a magnetic field, and a split ring resonator assembly configured to be magnetically coupled to the magnetic field generating device and configured to focus the magnetic field produced by the magnetic field generating device.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for use in wireless energy transfer, which includes a first resonator structure configured to transfer energy non-radiatively with a second resonator structure over a distance greater than a characteristic size of the second resonator structure. The non-radiative energy transfer is mediated by a coupling of a resonant field evanescent tail of the first resonator structure and a resonant field evanescent tail of the second resonator structure.

Abstract: A layered microstrip device is described, in which at least two layers of different high internal field/high resonance frequency materials serve as the active elements of the device. The device is designed to filter ranges of high frequency electromagnetic waves, and is on a small scale to enable integration with high frequency electronics. The ranges of frequencies to be filtered depend on the active elements and device geometry selected for the device. The tradeoffs regarding active material and device geometry choices are explored in detail. The ranges of frequencies to be filtered can be modified in real time with the application of an external magnetic field. A variety of the devices were fabricated, and a number of experimental and theoretical studies were carried out.

Abstract: A resonator for magnetic resonance applications has a conductor element proceeding in an extension direction, that operates with a resonance current at a resonance frequency oscillating therein in the extension direction. The conductor element is tuned to the resonance frequency and has an overall length in the extension direction that is smaller than half of the wavelength of the resonance frequency. The conductor element is a multi-layer conductor with layers that are electrically insulated from each other that, in said extension direction, have layer ends that are capacitively coupled with each other. During operation of the conductor element at the resonance frequency, respective layer currents flow in the layers in the extension direction that are substantially equal in magnitude.

Abstract: A resonator for magnetic resonance applications has a conductor element that extends from a first conductor end to a second conductor end. During operation of the conductor element at a resonance frequency, a resonance current-oscillates from the first conductor end to the second conductor end and back. The conductor ends are coupled with one another via a circuit that tunes the conductor element to the resonance frequency. The conductor element is fashioned as a multi-layer conductor with a number of layers that have first and second layer ends at the conductor ends. The circuit causes layer currents that are of equal magnitudes to flow in the layers themselves during active operation of the conductor element at the resonance frequency.

Abstract: A resonant structure is provided, including a first terminal, a second terminal which faces the first terminal, a wire unit which connects the first terminal and the second terminal, a third terminal which is spaced apart at a certain distance from the wire unit and which resonates the wire unit, and a potential barrier unit which is formed on the wire unit and which provides a negative resistance component. Accordingly, transduction efficiency can be enhanced.

Abstract: In order to make a reflection coefficient in boundary surface between materials to be zero and permeate 100% of a light independent of a polarization direction, an optical device made of an optical material composed of a metamaterial prepared by arranging a plurality of at least either of electrical resonators or magnetic resonators each being smaller than a wavelength of a light wave in only a predetermined plane, and at least either of the electrical resonators and the magnetic resonators arranged functioning with respect to s-polarization, wherein at least either of the dielectric constant or the magnetic permeability is controlled in response to the function to induce a Brewster phenomenon in the s-polarization.

Abstract: Devices for modification of a microwave signal using a magnetically saturated ferrite magnetoelectric device with electrical control are disclosed. The device is useful for microwave resonators, band pass filters, delay lines and phase shifters.

Abstract: Devices for modification of a microwave signal using a magnetically saturated ferrite magnetoelectric device with electrical control are disclosed. The device is useful for microwave resonators, band pass filters, delay lines and phase shifters.

Abstract: A base body for a YIG bandpass filter configured from a non-magnetic metal and including filter chambers, which are configured in the base body and contain YIG elements. Cavities and/or radial slots are configured in the base body for the suppression of eddy currents.

Abstract: A resonator apparatus and ferromagnetic resonance filter are described. The apparatuses and filters only include perturbation coils about an input resonator element and an output resonator element.

Abstract: A resonator, a band-pass filter, and a duplexer are provided. In the resonator, a first electrode is formed of a nonmagnetic conductive material. A ferromagnetic fixed layer is disposed on the first electrode and has a magnetization direction which is fixed. A nonmagnetic conductive layer is disposed on the ferromagnetic fixed layer. A ferromagnetic free layer is disposed on the nonmagnetic conductive layer and has a magnetization direction which varies depending on an external magnetic field. A second electrode is disposed on the ferromagnetic free layer and comprises a nonmagnetic conductive material. The band-pass filter and the duplexer are configured using the resonator. The band-pass filter and the duplexer can operate in a high-frequency range and be miniaturized. The bandwidth of the band-pass filter and the duplexer can be adjusted and the band-pass filter and the duplexer can be formed in one body with an integrated circuit.

Abstract: A resonator for magnetic resonance applications has a conductor element proceeding in an extension direction, that operates with a resonance current at a resonance frequency oscillating therein in the extension direction. The conductor element is tuned to the resonance frequency and has an overall length in the extension direction that is smaller than half of the wavelength of the resonance frequency. The conductor element is a multi-layer conductor with layers that are electrically insulated from each other that, in said extension direction, have layer ends that are capacitively coupled with each other. During operation of the conductor element at the resonance frequency, respective layer currents flow in the layers in the extension direction that are substantially equal in magnitude.

Abstract: The integrated microelectronics component comprises an electric conductor forming a transmission line element for a radio frequency electromagnetic wave. This electric conductor is surrounded at least partially by a preferably closed magnetic circuit, formed at least by superposition of a layer of ferromagnetic material having a saturation magnetization value greater than or equal to 800 kA/m and of a layer of magnetic material. The layer of magnetic material then generates a uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in the adjacent ferromagnetic layer. A high magnetization can then be combined with a high anisotropy, thus enabling operation in high frequency ranges, for example about 5 to 20 GHz.

Abstract: A YIG device comprises a resonator including a YIG element 16 of a single crystalline yttrium iron garnet having a part of yttrium substituted with gadolinium, which is formed in a spherical shape, and magnetic field applying means 20 for applying a magnetic field to the YIG element 16 to resonate the YIG element, whereby the YIG device can have a small ?H and a large threshold electric power for generating the resonance saturation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a high frequency component with a substrate constructed of a plurality of dielectric layers and, between them, electrode layers having conducting track structures, in which substrate at least one capacitive element and at least one inductive element is formed, whereby at least one arrangement of opposed conducting track 5 structures is provided, these realizing simultaneously a capacitive and an inductive element, whereby the common-mode impedance and the push-pull impedance between the opposing conducting track structures are adjusted to differ by a factor of at least 2.

Abstract: A self-tuning resonator for use in a transmitter apparatus for inducing alternating currents in a buried conductor. The resonator is dynamically tuned at frequencies below 500 kHz by exploiting the inherent voltage-variability of net capacitance in multilayer ceramic capacitors. The transmitter apparatus provides improved efficiency and induced output power suitable for use in a man-portable locator system, providing a very high magnetic field output from a physically small battery-powered resonator at frequencies under 500 kHz. The resonator exhibits a very low equivalent series resistance (ESR) and is adaptively returned to a predetermined resonant frequency responsive to any changes in resonance arising from phenomena such as component heating, thereby supporting very high tank circuit currents from battery-powered source to produce very high magnetic flux output.

Abstract: The integrated magnetostatic wave device comprises a substrate (1), a conductive ferromagnetic thin film (2) of thickness lying in the range about 250 nm to 450 nm and preferably being equal to about 300 nm, said thin film (2) being deposited on said substrate (1), a first transducer antenna (10) for receiving microwave electrical signals disposed parallel to said ferromagnetic thin film (2) in the vicinity thereof in order to create magnetostatic waves or spin waves in said material by inductive coupling, and a second transducer antenna (20) for transmitting microwave electrical signals disposed parallel to said ferromagnetic thin film (2) in the vicinity thereof in order to be inductively coupled thereto and in order to deliver microwave electrical signals on the arrival of a magnetostatic wave in the ferromagnetic thin film (2), said second antenna (20) being situated on the same side of the ferromagnetic thin film (2) as the first antenna (10) so as to be essentially coplanar therewith.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and an apparatus enabling operation of balanced phase shifts providing uniformity that the insertion loss do not show variation with the derived angles in phase shift. The invention incorporates a resonator supporting nonreciprocal wave propagation. The resonator is divided in two equal parts showing symmetry so that the change in electronic parameters from one part of the resonator counter balances the other part, thereby causing no change to the resonance condition. Amplifiers are thus not needed by the phase-shift operation. Electronically active materials, such as ferrites, ferroelectrics, and/or varactors, are utilized, and the phase shifter device can be fabricated assuming a variety of transmission-line geometries, such as microstrips, striplines, waveguides, coax lines, parallel wires, coplanar waveguides, image lines, fin lines, and slot lines, providing versatility and convenience in applications.

Abstract: A ferro-electric filter and method of tuning same. The filter includes a switch for switching between quarter wave resonator and half wave resonator modes. The filter also includes a ferro-electric component for tuning the resonant frequency. The method includes applying a switching control signal to the switch for switching between resonant frequencies and applying a tuning control signal for tuning the resonant frequency.

Abstract: An electromagnetic wave is input to a resonator 14 filled with a dielectric and a gas, and a resonance frequency, an insertion loss and a half-power width in the resonance mode of the electromagnetic wave output from the resonator 14 are measured by a network analyzer 16 in response to the input of the electromagnetic wave and the complex dielectric constant of the dielectric is calculated from the resonance frequency, the insertion loss and the half-power width which are thus measured.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging system comprises an excitation antennae system (13,16) including several antennae for emitting an RF-excitation field [B1(t)]. An activation control unit (ACU) is coupled to the excitation antennae system to activate the excitation antennae system. Individual antennae are activated to simultaneously emit separate RF-excitation constituents [Bn(t)]. The RF-excitation constituents have different activation distributions over k-space. and the time required for the RF-excitation is short even for complex spatial excitation patterns.

Abstract: A YIG film formed on a GGG substrate is separated by a stepwise groove for preparing YIG films having different intervals between end surfaces, and two YIG films resonating magnetostatic waves between the end surfaces having different intervals are coupled with each other thereby forming a resonator.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance antenna has at least five antenna elements, each of, which extends essentially radially from an inner element beginning to at least one outer element end with respect to a center axis. The antenna elements are at least magnetically coupled with one another.

Abstract: The invention relates to a resonant ultra-high frequency circuit and a tuneable ultra-high frequency filter using the resonant circuit. The resonant circuit comprises at least one resonant microstrip line element, the resonant microstrip line element comprising a conducting ribbon (1) and a ground plane (4). The resonant circuit comprises at least one composite element (3) composed of an alternation of ferromagnetic layers and insulating layers located between the conducting ribbon and the ground plane.

Abstract: Single and multiple ferrite crystal resonator, oscillator, and filter coupling structures are disclosed. In one embodiment, a single ferrite crystal resonator coupling structure is configured as a single pole YIG-tuned-oscillator (YTO) coupling structure. The YTO coupling structure includes a circuit substrate having an upper and a lower side. The circuit substrate includes an aperture extending through the circuit substrate between first and second openings on the upper and lower sides, respectively. The aperture is configured to permit rotation of a ferrite crystal disposable at least partially therein about a plurality of axes whereby a desirable axis of the ferrite crystal is alignable with a magnetic field within the aperture. At least one coupling line through which an electric current can be directed, which extends between a first end and a second end of the first opening of the aperture across at least a portion of the first opening of the aperture.