CPC H01Q 21/20 (2013.01) [H01Q 13/10 (2013.01)] | 22 Claims |
1. An antenna comprising:
an antenna aperture having a plurality of RF radiating antenna elements that each include an iris and a solid state device coupled across the iris, wherein the plurality of antenna elements are located in rings with orientation of each of the irises of the antenna elements in at least a portion of each ring rotated with respect to adjacent irises in the portion of said each ring while orientation of corresponding solid state devices is uniform; and
a controller coupled to control the array of RF radiating antenna elements to tune RF radiating antenna elements to generate one or more beams using the plurality of RF radiating antenna elements.
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