For Armortex, military communications represents a new application of its line of panels. By themselves, Armortex products are widely used in courtrooms, government and corporate offices, banks, convenience stores, prisons and police stations. Rick Snelling, Vice President/General Manager of Armortex, called Applied Nanontech’s incorporation of its product line “impressive.” Researchers at UT Knoxville at Villanova agree.
“This has been a challenging yet exciting program to take a passive composite material and create a complex antenna structure that not only provides ballistic protection but also may help defeat improvised explosive devices and other threats,” says Dr. Aly Fathy, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Knoxville. “This program is a synergistic combination of functional requirements, materials, novel design, modeling and testing,” added Dr. Ahmad Hoorfar, Professor and Director of Antenna Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Villanova University.
