Fractal Antenna: What's New

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Fractal Metamaterials Under Contract

FRACTAL has won its first bona fide metamaterial contract, mere months after it publicly announced the availability of the new technology. A defense related application, the antenna design is a fractal antenna augmented by metamaterials, also made of fractals. The antenna is a much smaller design with comparable performance to a conventional one.

Record New Orders on UACM's

Fueled by price reductions with our flagship indoor wireless product, the UACM set a new orders record in Q4. Leveraging the pleasing form factor with unprecedented wideband coverage, the UACM has quickly established itself as a standard in the industry.

Third Anechoic Range Added

FRACTAL added a third anechoic range to its development antenna laboratory in Waltham, MA. Designed for 700 MHz on up, the new facility frees up a logjam on FRACTAL's main anechoic chamber.

The new chamber is modular and can be reconfigured in a matter of minutes. It also allows the engineers instant access for real-time measurement and design tweaking. Notes CEO Nathan Cohen: "Paradoxically, chamber manufacturers make their boxes so that they are great for testing but awkward for tweaking. The new chamber makes it easy to implement antenna and array design mods in real-time, rather than schlepping stuff in and out to the bench on a repetitive basis."

"Clearly the additional testing access will improve productivity and allow for the greater throughput we need with our increasing customer base in 2010", remarked Cohen.

FRACTAL NOW ON "SCIENCE TREK" ON PBS

Fractal Antenna Systems and our CEO Nathan Cohen are featured on the new TV show "Science Trek" now playing nationwide on PBS. Discussing the inspiration of science fiction; metamaterials and cloaking; and how new technologies are adopted, Dr. Cohen paints an interesting view of a future where fractal metamaterials render 'surfaces' into collections of useful things. Just a wall, ceiling or a door? Not for long!

UASM: Flat and Wideband and Now at a Great Price

Following the terrific reception for the price break on our wideband indoor wireless product the UACM, we are happy to announce price breaks on its sister product, the UASM. Systems Integrators, why not give Jane Winter a call for quote?

METACLOAK™ MONOPOLE—COMING SOON!

Fractal is proud to announce that the first major matematerial product is scheduled for launch early next year. We'll keep you posted.

VISIT METACLOAK.NET For Our Fractal Metamaterial Happenings

Many exciting new things have been happening on the fractal metamaterial front—and we've had trouble breaking away to report them. But have no fear: we'll get them out, especially those videos!

ARE WE HIRING?

FRACTAL welcomes resumes from qualified applicants for two new jobs when posted. Check our jobs site periodically to see what we are looking for.

FRACTAL METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS - METACLOAK™ -
LET THE REVOLUTION BEGIN!

FRACTAL announced on 5 October 2009 its revolutionary new antenna technology. Check it out on www.metacloak.net !

UACM - The CLASSIC PUBLIC SAFETY ANTENNA - SUCH A DEAL!

We’ve passed on economies of scale on our flagship indoor wireless antenna. Check out the savings.

FRACTAL ANTENNA’ s METAMATERIALS ON TELEVISION AND VIDEO

FRACTAL will be featured, again, on a new network television show to be broadcast around or after Thanksgiving 2009. Stay tuned! Also, we will have our videos on our metacloak™ technology up on Youtube about that time. Vu on!

NEW! - FRACTAL'S CATALOG FOR MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT

The world's leader in wideband and covert antenna solutions has a new catalog, available 17 September. In it you'll find the state of the art for antennas - dismounted, vehicular, fixed, and man-pack. See why we say: "we're years ahead!". DOD and USG queries only. Happy to help with pre-release queries.
CONTACT: Jane Winter 781-275-2300 x06.

FRACTAL'S RAPIQUIP™ ASSEMBLY-- NOW IN FULL-FORCE

Fractal is pleased to announce the implementation of its RAPIQUIP™ processing for moderate–sized order lot sizes. For selected defense and commercial customers, FRACTAL is now able to achieve parts procurement, final assembly, quality testing, and shipping - quickly - all within our home facility. Leveraging the talents of US vendors and contract manufacturers, FRACTAL is proud to serve the needs of our customers in this way, while helping our US based support partners at the same time.

FRACTAL Celebrates Its 15th Year

Fractal Antenna Systems is now celebrating its 15th year! What began as a humble garage-based startup has grown to become the world leader in antenna innovation—and the pioneer in fractal electronics and metamaterial applications. Committed and moving forward, join us as we continue our growth with the fascinating field of fractals!

Fractal CEO Invited Speaker at Printed Electronics USA

Fractal Antenna Systems' Nathan Cohen will be an invited speaker at the December Printed Electronics USA 2009 Conference in San Jose CA.

Printed Electronics USA (http://www.idtechex.com/printedelectronicsusa09/en/) is the world's largest conference dealing with the use of printed circuits and their uses. Innovative needs, methods, and technology applications have caused an explosive growth in that market, with continued growth forecasted despite the economic downturn.

CEO Cohen will be speaking on the prospects for practical uses of metamaterials in printed electronics. The firm's announcements earlier in the year, on the successful use of fractals as metamaterials, lead the way to near-term applications of the 'metafractal™' technology. This paves the path for taking metamaterials out of the scientists' labs and into the hands of consumers, government, and other end-users.

Notes Cohen: "We are no longer decades away from 'killer apps' for metamaterials. The issues are mainly business ones—who needs the technology; what new uses will it enable? As a scientist by training, I understand that forecasting fantastic futures from new discoveries is fun, but making those happen is the technologist’s challenge." Cohen will report applications for the metafractal™ technology in a variety of enabling applications including: energy; telecommunications; RFID; computers; healthcare; defense; and other arenas.

Fractal Floating in Sea of Foam

For two weeks in early June, Fractal Antenna Systems floated in a sea of blue-wedgie anechoic foam. All three of its chambers and testing platforms have now been re-foamed for better performance and accuracy in measurements. Fractal now has capabilities from 200MHz - 8GHz in its laboratory area, with several separate and versatile testing positions. Outside capabilities continue from MF on up. We are enjoying our new Quiet Zones.

A Big Hit at Harvard

On 15 April, FRACTAL's CEO gave an invited Harvard University seminar at the Center for Nanoscale Systems on: "Small, Wide, and See-Thru: Adventures in Practical Fractals and Life on the Tortuous Path". Attended by students, researchers and engineers, the seminar presented, for the first time outside of FRACTAL's lab, data from the world's first wideband invisibility cloak, a FRACTAL invention. Emphasizing the fascinating tale of fractal antennas, the seminar also highlighted the marriage of fractal resonators to antennas, with a live demonstration on how fractal metamaterials open up new arenas for fractal antenna design and unique performance attributes.

Cohen, previously a research assistant at Harvard, pointed out how many of his ideas in science first incubated at Harvard's Cruft Laboratory, just step away from the seminar.

Fractal Antenna Featured on NOVA

Dr. Nathan Cohen, CEO of Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc. is featured on the new NOVA show:”Hunting the Hidden Dimension”. The show is a fascinating romp through the emerging field of fractal applications to explain nature—and build exciting new technologies. Dr. Benoit Maldelbrot, the father of fractal geometry, tells his extraordinary story of insight and scorn by colleagues, now to see whole fields of science and technology embracing fractals as the tool they need to make better sense of nature and technology.

Dr. Cohen recounts his invention of fractal element antennas in the 80’s, based on a conference meeting with Dr. Mandelbrot. From then, fractal antennas took a spring board to smaller antennas, keen insight into Maxwell’s equations—and wideband antennas. The whole show is educational and fun. See your local PBS station for showings, or www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/fractals/ for video streaming.