Conformal antennas
Antennas that stick to the surface
Any band from HF to mm-wave. On vehicles, drones, uniforms or glass. Plug into the radio you already carry.
Critical components, made from carbon in the USA
Signals, Shields & Sensors Built for the mission
We replace metal with a carbon film. The result is antennas, shielding and heat management that are thinner, lighter and tougher than anything made of copper. Then we build the whole system around it.
Prototypes ship in days
Shields like copper at 1/20 the thickness
1/8 the weight of copper
Made in Texas
01 — The material
One film does the job of metal. Thinner than paint. Lighter than foil. It won't rust, and it won't break when you bend it.
Cut it into an antenna. Wrap it around a radio to shield it. Lay it under electronics to pull heat away. Paint over it and it disappears.
1/20The thickness of copper for the same shielding.
40×Lighter than aluminum for the same shielding.
1 sheetOf paper. That's how thick our antenna is. The whip it replaces is 2 inches tall.
200×More bends before failure than copper wire.
02 — Capabilities
Four things we build.
Every one arrives as a finished part or a complete system, ready to install.
Conformal antennas
EMI shielding
Shielding without the metal
Wraps, pouches, tents and liners that block signals as well as copper, at a fraction of the weight.
Thermal mitigation
Heat spread without the weight
Thin layers that pull heat away from packed electronics so they keep running.
Full-system engineering
We build the whole thing
Antenna, housing, electronics and software. One team from your requirement to the field.
RF designMechanical & housingsEmbedded hardwareFirmware & softwareIntegration & test
03 — Field results
Demonstrated, not promised.
Chamber and field results against the incumbent metal hardware, on the platforms operators actually carry, fly and drive.
Anechoic chamberReturn loss, resonance and pattern against copper and aluminum references
Field rangeOpen-field, indoor and vehicle-park testing at a combat development center
OperationalFielded overseas with a special operations partner
Peer-reviewedPublished radiation efficiency parity with copper at 5, 10 and 14 GHz
- A
Unmanned ground vehicle, dual-band Wi-Fi / Bluetooth
Drop-in replacement for the stock antenna on a quadruped UGV, same connector. Latency 20 to 25% lower, outdoor packet loss 50% lower, signal strength up to 41% higher in a parking structure, at under half the weight and a fraction of the cost.
Customer tested - B
Group 1 UAS, conformal ADS-B dipole
10 grams and 0.127 mm against an 80 gram, 50 mm blade. No mounting holes, no drag penalty. Estimated 4 to 16% more range on 0.5 to 1.9 kg airframes from weight alone.
Demonstrated - C
Non-standard vehicles, low-visibility GPS L1 patch
Equivalent performance to a ruggedized active GPS antenna with zero visual signature and no bodywork on the host vehicle. Chamber tested, range tested, fielded in a combatant command area of responsibility.
Fielded - D
Wearables, RFID tag antennas
One-for-one swap for an aluminum inlay in a commercial wristband. Stable reads across body types and orientations in under 1.5 mm total, replacing a 6.35 mm foam spacer stack.
Customer tested - E
HF / VHF manpack, field-expedient dipole
0.75 to 1.5 pounds against 5 pounds of wire antenna. Visible at under 10 meters instead of 90 to 150. Survives more than 2 billion flex cycles and does not corrode.
In development - F
Body-worn antenna with operator shielding
A conformal meandering dipole laminated into fabric with a carbon reflector layer behind it. The reflector keeps the body out of the pattern and RF out of the body, so the element keeps working where a whip and an unshielded dipole both go dead.
Demonstrated
04 — Platforms
Where metal cannot go.
Every element starts with a real platform, a real radio and the person who has to carry it.
Evaluation kit
Concept to deployable prototype in days
Tell us the radio, the platform and the band. We pattern, laminate, connectorize and ship an evaluation kit, then iterate on your field feedback until it's right.
- PatterningLaser, no tooling
- TurnaroundKits in as little as one day
- ConnectorsTNC, SMA, custom
- SubstratesFluoropolymer, polyolefin, synthetic paper, fabric
- ManufacturingDomestic roll-to-roll, Texas
Body-worn
On the operator
Antennas laminated into nylon or aramid, with a reflector layer that protects the wearer and preserves the pattern. No spools of wire, no whip.
Unmanned systems
UAS & UGV
Conformal ADS-B, GPS and datalink elements for small airframes and ground robots. Less weight, less drag, more range, lower radar profile.
Vehicles
Non-standard platforms
Low-visibility GPS, comms and tracking elements that blend into a civilian roofline with no bodywork and nothing to spot.
Fixed & space
Structures, optics, orbit
Shielded rooms and tents, transparent elements on glass, and antennas whose geometry holds through orbital thermal cycling.
05 — Full-system engineering
A conductor is not a product. We deliver the system: the element, the enclosure it lives in, the electronics it feeds and the software that runs it.
Most material companies hand you a roll. We take the requirement through RF design, mechanical packaging, embedded hardware and software, prove it in the chamber and on the range, and hand back something an operator can mount and use.
- 01Define
Radio, band, platform, environment, signature and weight budget.
- 02Design
Pattern, feed and matching. Enclosure, mount and laminate. Electronics and software.
- 03Pattern
Laser-cut direct from the design file. No tooling, so a redesign costs hours.
- 04Build
Laminate, connectorize, house, populate and program.
- 05Test
Chamber, bench and range against the incumbent hardware.
- 06Field
Operator feedback drives the next iteration, in days.
Scope / 01
Antenna & RF
Dipoles, patches, meanders, arrays and reflectarrays from HF through mm-wave. Impedance matching, feeds, reflector and shielding layers, chamber and network-analyzer validation.
Scope / 02
Mechanical & housings
Enclosures, mounts, laminates and fabric integration designed to fit existing kit, rails and platforms. Sealed and ruggedized where the mission demands it.
Scope / 03
Embedded & software
Radio and sensor integration, control electronics, firmware and the application software that turns an element into a capability on the operator's screen.
06 — Why carbon
The case against copper.
For the engineers: what the film is, what it measures, and why it beats the metal it replaces.
Why carbon / 01
Copper is a liability
The skin effect cuts copper's useful conductivity roughly ten-fold by 5 GHz. It corrodes, it fatigues, and more than half of the world's refining capacity sits with an adversary. Our film is 100% carbon, sourced and made domestically.
Why carbon / 02
Signature is survivability
A field whip is visible at 90 to 150 meters. A conformal carbon element sits a tenth of a millimeter above the surface, adds no drag, needs no mounting holes, and disappears under paint.
Why carbon / 03
Speed is the advantage
A new antenna geometry is a laser file, not a tool. We design, build and test with the operator in the loop and converge on a field-ready element in days, not program cycles.
Typical film properties
Measured on production film. Composition and thickness are tuned per application; transparent variants exceed 90% transmittance.
- Composition>85% single-walled CNT, 100% carbon
- Thickness3.5 µm typical, tunable
- Sheet resistance0.12 Ω/sq
- ConductivityAnisotropic, up to 10× in process direction
- Thermal conductivity450 W/m·K
- Thermal expansionNear-zero
- Density1.1 g/cm³, 1/8 of copper
- Tensile strength0.8 GPa
- Elastic modulus120 GPa
- UV & weatherNo practical limit; does not oxidize
- Format24 cm rolls to 200 m, or sheets
- HandlingBound solid film, non-respirable
07 — Team
Operators. Founders. Engineers.
The people designing your system have carried the kit, built the company and run the line.
Special operations & intelligence
Veterans of special operations and the intelligence community who know what signature, weight and a dead link cost downrange. They write the requirement and sit in every design review.
Serial entrepreneurs
Founders who have built, scaled and exited technology companies before. They know how to take a material from a lab result to a production line, a quality system and a contract vehicle.
Experienced engineers
RF, materials, mechanical, embedded and software engineers, backed by more than a decade of peer-reviewed research on carbon nanotube antennas and a running production line.
Operators in the loopDesign, build and test with the end user, in their environment
IP protectedPatented process; partner designs stay with the partner
Domestic supply chainInputs sourced in the US and allied nations, film made in Texas
Safe by designBound solid film, non-respirable, no loose nanoparticles, no combustible dust
08 — Contact
Tell us about the application.
Bring us the radio, the platform, the band or the problem. We'll come back with a path to an evaluation kit, a system design or a partnership conversation.