AURORA, IL– As part of its role for the Advanced Materials for Ubiquitous Leading-edge Electromagnetic Technologies (AMULET) research project, Vector Fields has provided antenna developers with enhanced design tools to simulate metamaterial structures as a way to reduce the costs and the size in wireless production. Metamaterials can be used to tailor the effective impedance of a substrate or ground plane, to improve an antenna’s radiation pattern and efficiency. Metamaterial structures could additionally be used to integrate common filtering requirements such as band pass filters into the two-dimensional PCB structure, to reduce the cost and size of a wireless product's electronic bill of materials (BOM). The company plans to add modeling support for any future developments that come as AMULET begins to explore the use of active metamaterials. 

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