Copper Innovation Technologies (CIT) has introduced a unique transparent antenna technology named “Dolphin” that seamlessly integrates into smart transportation systems, enabling real-time traffic management, security, and accident prevention, while improving driver convenience, and supporting sustainable city development.
CIT’s transparent antenna is called Dolphin because Dolphins are known to have the ability to hear the broadest range of sound frequencies among animals. These antennas are designed to operate over a broad radio frequency (RF) range all the way up to 20 GHz compared to the existing transparent antennas, which operate only till 6 GHz.
CIT’s transparent antennas are manufactured using a 10 nm thick copper foil, which makes it approximately 300 times thinner than the existing transparent antennas while still enabling stable information transmission. The company uses thin film technology that merges trillion nucleations and deposits homogeneous nanocrystalline materials in the range of 5-200 nm, which minimizes lattice mismatch issues present in the traditional ASE technology.
CIT’s ASE deposition technology is tailored to provide a higher electron transfer rate due to the minimization of surface scattering and grain-boundary scattering. This technology also produces an ultra-flat surface and maintains surface roughness below 1 nm.
Traditional antenna manufacturing methods generally emit 3.75 tons of carbon per ton of copper produced. However, by using recycled scrap copper, CIT has reduced this to just 0.175 tons, thereby cutting the carbon footprint of their antennas by 95%. This results in their antennas reaching near-net-zero carbon footprints during manufacturing.
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