Dr. Jaume Anguera has been selected to lead the Fractus Antennas research team. Anguera, previously R&D Manager within the company, has been promoted to Chief Scientist becoming the top responsible for researching and developing new breakthrough technologies in the antenna field.

Jaume Anguera is an inventor with more than 120 granted patents, in particular, he is the lead inventor of the Virtual Antenna™ “antenna-less” technology together with his peer colleagues Dr. Aurora Andujar and Dr. Carles Puente at Fractus Antennas. The range of mXTEND™ products based on the Virtual Antenna™ technology, created by Jaume Anguera and his colleagues, enables full functional multiband wireless connectivity to smartphones and IoT devices through miniature and off-the-shelf chip components that replace traditional customized antennas.

Jaume Anguera: “The radical innovation of the antenna-less technology is its multiband capability, the mXTEND™ antenna boosters can deliver full mobile performance with a broad range of frequency bands with a single part number.  This enables OEMs to shorten their time-to-market in developing new wireless devices while simplifying the logistics in the supply chain and reducing costs”.

About Fractus Antennas

Barcelona-based Fractus Antennas SL designs, manufactures and commercializes miniature, off-the-shelf antennas for IoT, mobile connectivity, and short-range wireless devices. Founded as an independent antenna product business in 2015, Fractus Antennas was born out of the main Fractus operation and combines a respected R&D team with proven manufacturing capabilities and scale to bring to market a new generation of antenna products to meet the mobile and wireless connectivity needs of OEMs.

“The new antenna technologies will solve many challenges that traditional antenna technology has not been able to overcome”, Patrick Hindle, Microwave Journal Editor, confirms in the new Cover Feature article of the Microwave Journal. This January issue, dedicated to the antenna field, is where Fractus Antennas’ technology has been selected to be part of those technologies to take into account for the antenna future: “Antenna Technologies for the Future“.

Enabling multiple antenna shapes and many different applications is traditionally a challenge in the antenna engineering field. Fractus Antennas’ Virtual Antenna™ technology is based on replacing this complex and problematic customized antenna design for a standardized, miniature, off the shelf and multiband antenna booster. Virtual Antenna™ technology (antenna-less technology) can replace the conventional customized printed antennas for this miniature booster that enables full multiband wireless connectivity reducing space, cost and time, the usual dilemma of the conventional antenna technologies.

All the antenna booster products by Fractus Antennas are named mXTEND™ products and they can be easily assembled on the PCB of the device using the “pick-and-place” procedure in the same way any other electronic component is assembled. The complete mXTEND™ range of products has been specifically designed for providing multiband performance in any mobile or IoTwireless device and any of the antenna boosters enable worldwide coverage in across the different communication standards required.

About Fractus Antennas

Barcelona-based Fractus Antennas SL designs, manufactures and commercializes miniature, off-the-shelf antennas for IoT, mobile connectivity, and short-range wireless devices. Founded as an independent antenna product business in 2015, Fractus Antennas was born out of the main Fractus operation and combines a respected R&D team with proven manufacturing capabilities and scale to bring to market a new generation of antenna products to meet the mobile and wireless connectivity needs of OEMs.