Additional funding
was obtained from the East of England Development Agency, UK, and the
Cambridge Angels comprising Richard Parmee and Phil O’Donovan who invested in
a company named Smantenna Ltd. Antenova, a Cambridge based dielectric antenna
company offered help in tests in their Satimo Stargate antenna test chamber
besides support in antenna prototyping. Professor Bryn Webber of Cavendish
Laboratory and David Tong of Department of Mathematics at Cambridge provided
theoretical support in the field of symmetry breaking aspects of the work
through extended discussions. Some additional feedback was also provided by
Professor Peter Littlewood, who was the head of Cavendish at that time and is
currently the Director of Argonne National Laboratory. The work is an outcome
of rather long innings of research in a process where innovation and
discovery were seamlessly interwoven through a synergy between government
funding, private investors and Trusts, along with academics from various
depart