Antenna Engineering Consulting Services: RF, Microwave and mmWave Antenna Design

SiberSci, LLC provides antenna engineering consulting for RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave applications, covering research, design, development, prototyping, and optimization of new antennas, as well as performance improvement of existing antennas. Projects are led by Dr. Scott Best and use both analytical and numerical (computational) electromagnetic methods.

SiberSci designs wire, reflector, planar, conformal, lens, ablation, and sensing antennas. Specific designs include patch antennas, phased and patch antenna arrays, parabolic and corner reflectors, Cassegrain and inverse Cassegrain reflectors, standard gain and corrugated horns, dielectric, Luneburg, and Rotman lenses, spiral antennas, near-field and far-field RFID antennas, and application-specific antennas.

Yes. SiberSci optimizes existing antennas that are not meeting requirements, for example poor impedance match (VSWR or return loss), insufficient gain or bandwidth, an unwanted radiation pattern, or performance that degrades once the antenna is installed in an enclosure or system. Improving an existing design is often faster and less costly than starting over.

SiberSci works across the RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave bands. Because SiberSci also provides RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave circuit engineering, antenna work can include the surrounding hardware such as feed networks, transmission lines, impedance matching networks, baluns, couplers, and waveguide components.

SiberSci, LLC was founded by Dr. Scott Best, an electromagnetic engineer with experience in both industry and government. SiberSci is listed in the IEEE-USA Consultants Database and is a BBB Accredited Business based in Owensboro, Kentucky.

SiberSci provides a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) that the client can review, negotiate, and amend before any sensitive details are shared. The NDA protects business-sensitive information, intellectual property (IP), and proprietary data (PD). When you first make contact, state whether an NDA is required.

Cost depends on the scope of the project. After reviewing your antenna's performance and size requirements, SiberSci provides a budgetary quotation and a schedule. Work begins once a contract has been negotiated and signed by both parties.

Include the operating frequency and bandwidth, required gain and radiation pattern, polarization, impedance and VSWR targets, size, weight, and mounting constraints, the operating environment, the target quantity or cost, and your schedule. A clear description of the work to be performed lets SiberSci return an accurate budgetary quotation faster.

An ablation antenna delivers concentrated RF or microwave energy into a material or tissue to heat it in a controlled way. In medicine, microwave ablation antennas are used to destroy tumors and other tissue. Designing one requires careful control of the heating pattern and impedance match inside a lossy medium, which is a specialty SiberSci supports alongside its RF and microwave heating work.

Yes. SiberSci provides expert witness services and electromagnetic patent review and preparation for antennas and other RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave devices, circuits, subassemblies, and systems.

Yes. SiberSci offers free online electromagnetic calculators, including a Wavelength Calculator that can be used to size a monopole antenna, a Skin Depth Calculator for choosing conductor thickness, and waveguide and coaxial transmission line calculators.

Email Dr. Scott Best at scott_best@sibersci.com or call 1-270-228-4901 with a description of your antenna requirements and schedule, and state whether you need an NDA. SiberSci will review the requirements and respond with a budgetary quotation and schedule.