Antenna Access Is Slim With Fractus

Fractus has debuted TVNext. This product is a slim and compact internal VHF antenna (20 x 10 x 1.6mm) that can easily be integrated into wireless devices, such as mobile phones, PDAs, laptops, etc. The new antenna also completes Fractus’ digital TV antenna portfolio, which now encompasses all mobile TV systems and frequency bands. 

VHF operates in a low frequency band (200MHz); therefore a traditional antenna design approach requires an antenna that is more than two times as long as most mobile TV devices. That means the handset requires a large retractable antenna, making antenna integration more complex and costly. Additionally, a retractable antenna poses severe limitations to handset’s design. 

Using its patented fractal antenna technologies, Fractus has designed an internal VHF antenna that offers reduced size, simple integration into a device plus an excellent level of performance in terms of gain and efficiency. TVNext enables device manufacturers to design low-cost and highly efficient portable TV devices, accelerating the mass market for Mobile TV.




The Fractus portfolio for digital TV applications now includes antenna solutions for all frequency bands, including VHF, UHF and L-band; and for all mobile TV systems being deployed around the world, such as DVB-H, mediaFLO (Qualcomm technology for broadcasting data to portable devices) and ISDB-T (Japan’s digital TV and digital radio format enable digital conversion). Fractus was the first antenna manufacturer to launch a suite of DVB-H internal antennas, enabling the world’s smallest mobile TV handset with an internal antenna, Sagem‘s myMobileTV handset. The VHF antenna is 50 ohm terminated, linear polarized and omnidirectional, as well as RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances, European legislation to eliminate or curtail use of certain elements in electronics) compliant—Barcelona, Spain