0.0018
Loss tangent at 100 GHz, the lowest of any 3D-printable material
>34 dBi
Realized gain on lenses with apertures beyond 30 wavelengths
0 W
Passive aperture. No phase shifters, no heat sinks, no cooling
100 GHz
Upper working frequency
The Problem Today
Today’s beamforming is reaching its physical limits.
Bandwidth and frequency demands keep climbing. Phased arrays and reflector dishes each solve half the problem. A gradient-index lens combines the strengths of both.
Phased array
Steers electronically with thousands of phase-controlled elements. No moving parts, but expensive, power-hungry and heat-limited. Multi-band needs duplicate hardware.
Reflector dish
Inexpensive and proven, but bulky. Steering means moving the dish, and it tracks one target at a time.
PereGRIN lens
Focuses with a continuous refractive-index gradient obtained by micro-structured internal geometry. Passive, natively multi-band and multi-beam.
Applications
From satellite terminals to vehicle radar.
Ku · Ka
Satcom terminals
Lightweight terminals that track several satellites at once and roam across LEO, MEO and GEO from a single aperture.
10–40 GHz
Defense and counter-UAS
Pencil-thin beams that resist jamming and detection, and battery-powered radar a soldier can carry.
24–90 GHz
5G / 6G and backhaul
High-gain focusing to overcome urban path loss, and power-free relays that densify mmWave coverage.
76–81 GHz
Imaging radar
Sub-degree angular precision in a package compact enough for every vehicle and industrial sensor.
Phase 1
Exploration
Explore what new capabilities our technology enables in your system.
Phase 2
Development
We can co-design a unique lens tuned to your specific requirements.
Phase 3
Prototyping
We can run small production batches for field testing and qualification.
Phase 4
Deployment
Inkbit can handle volume production and become your lens supplier.
Design your product around what we make possible.
From simulation to lens in weeks.
We own the full stack — design software, chemistry and printers — and build every lens in our Massachusetts factory.
Index map to lattice
Our toolchain turns your simulation into a refractive-index point cloud, converts it into a GRIN lattice, and generates voxel-level instructions for the printer.
Ultra-low-loss chemistry
Our proprietary cyclic olefin thermoset (COT) has a loss tangent of 0.0018 at 100 GHz. Vision-Controlled Jetting makes it printable, along with other chemistries that conventional 3D printing can't handle.
Vision-Controlled Jetting
The first additive system that sees what it builds and corrects itself in real time, holding the resolution needed for operation up to 100 GHz.