Under DARPA funding, Applied Radar has developed novel patent-pending lightweight antenna technology. Our conductive fiber and woven sheet antennas incorporate low-cost, lightweight flexible substrates. These antennas have numerous applications, some of which arelisted below. Please see our article in Textile World.

Applications:

• Wearable antennas
• Conformal aircraft or vehicle antennas
• Hidden antennas that conform to the environment
• Very large phased-array apertures

Advantages:

• Extremely low cost
• Very light weight
• Flexible substrates

Performance Comparison

Shown below is a measured radiation pattern performance comparison of a 2x2 quad patch antenna fabricated using our novel conductive fiber antennas against a reference PTFE design. The novel antenna has slightly higher gain, due to our low-loss substrate. The specifications and advantages are summarized in the antenna below.