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Article: Fractal Metamaterials Enable Antenna Revolution.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- October 21, 2009
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Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc. announced development of a new metamaterial technology that uses fractals to make layered, partless antennas and related electronics. Fractals are complex geometric shapes built up from a repetition of a simple one, while metamaterials are composites with unusual properties not found in nature. These new antennas, called "metacloak™" antennas, have unique performance abilities in bandwidth, gain, directivity, and versatility of form factor (see also Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc.).
"Previously antennas had attributes in many form factor and performance regimes, but these new antennas are unprecedented", notes inventor Nathan ...