Technology

Built around one breakthrough: Skymesh™

Skymesh™, our transparent metamaterial film, is the breakthrough. Our AI fusion models and mesh-to-electronics integration turn it into a deployable sensor.

The differentiator

Skymesh™: transparent metamaterial mesh

Clear and conductive at once

Skymesh™ is a lithographically-defined mesh of micron-scale wires that are invisible to the eye, yet conductive enough to act as a RADAR antenna and a transparent heater that clears fog and ice from the aperture without obstructing the LiDAR or radar signals. Its geometry is engineered to suppress interference such as diffraction, and it is what makes a shared-aperture LiDAR + RADAR sensor possible. Over a decade of optimisation has refined its material composition, structure geometry, design process and volume manufacturing.

Optically transparent

A sub-wavelength micro-mesh the eye can’t see, so the aperture stays clear for LiDAR and cameras.

Electrically conductive

Antenna-grade conductivity, so the same surface works as a RADAR antenna and a heater.

Interference-suppressing geometry

The mesh pattern is engineered to suppress optical interference such as diffraction.

Transparent defogging

The same conductive mesh heats the surface to clear fog and ice without obstructing the LiDAR or radar signals passing through.

Supporting capability

AI fusion perception models

Two sensors, one accurate picture

The two sensors are complementary: LiDAR resolves precise 3D shape, position and boundaries, while RADAR measures velocity directly and keeps working through fog, rain, dust and darkness. Our models fuse them into one accurate, real-time understanding of the scene. It is robust to weather and clutter, with sensor redundancy for safety, and forms the intelligence layer on top of the shared-aperture hardware.

Sensor fusion

Combine LiDAR’s resolution with RADAR’s all-weather range and velocity.

Real-time

A live depiction of the environment, covering range, velocity and direction of moving objects.

Robust

Designed to hold up in fog, dust, rain and clutter where a single sensor degrades.

Supporting capability

Mesh-to-electronics integration

Bridging transparent meshes and conventional electronics

We know how to interface and integrate metal meshes with conventional electrical circuits and PCBs, optimized for efficiency and low loss, turning a transparent surface into a working, manufacturable sensor.

Mesh-to-PCB interfacing

Connecting transparent metal meshes to conventional circuits and connectors.

Optimized for low loss

Transitions engineered for signal efficiency and minimal insertion loss.

Built to manufacture

Integration approaches designed with volume production in mind.

Integration and licensing

Bring Tycho's stack into your platform

Built to integrate, built to license

Tycho's technology stack is modular and available to license. We customise it for your UAV or automotive platform and optimise it to work with your existing LiDAR and radar sensors, so you can bring transparent, shared-aperture sensing into your own product.
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License the stack

Skymesh™, the AI fusion perception models and our integration know-how are modular and available to license.

Customised to your platform

We adapt and optimise the stack for your UAV or automotive platform.

Works with your existing sensors

Sensor-agnostic by design, tuned to a variety of existing LiDAR and radar units.

Peer-reviewed

Selected publications

Our work on transparent conductive meshes and antennas, the science behind Skymesh™, is peer-reviewed, with results presented at leading IEEE and EuCAP antennas-and-propagation venues. A selection:

Invited talks

Shaping the field for over a decade

For more than ten years our team has helped shape the commercialisation of metamaterials and transparent meshes, the foundation of Skymesh™. A selection of invited talks:

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