Carbon nanotube enhanced conductors for communications cables and related communications cables and methods

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8853540
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13446728

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A conductor for a communications cable includes an elongated metal wire and a metal sheet that includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes that at least partially surrounds the elongated metal wire. The metal wire may include copper, and the metal sheet may likewise include copper and may be welded to an outside surface of the metal wire to surround the metal wire. This conductor may be used in a variety of communications cables that carry high frequency signals.

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  • COMMSCOPE, INC. OF NORTH CAROLINA

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Adriaenssens, Luc Walter Frisco, US 7 460

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