3D printed plastic 60 GHz lens: Enabling innovative millimeter wave antenna solution and system

Bisognin, Aimeric; Titz, Diane; Ferrero, Fabien; Pilard, Romain; Fernandes, Carlos A.; Costa, Jorge R.; Corre, Christian; Calascibetta, Pierino; Rivière, Jean-Michel; Poulain, A.; Badard, Christian; Gianesello, Frédéric; Luxey, Cyril; Busson, P.; Gloria, D.; Belot, Didier

doi:10.1109/mwsym.2014.6848450

Cited by 51 publications

(21 citation statements)

References 11 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The previous types, such as Ethernet PON (EPON) and Gigabit PON (GPON) according to the IEEE 802.3ah standard [2] and ITU-T G.984 recommendation [3], are currently being replaced by updated PON solutions, 10GEPON presented within IEEE 802.3av std. [4] and XG-PON in ITU-T G.987 [5] rec. All these PON types mentioned above are based on time-division multiplex (TDM) principle while both upstream and downstream TDM frames consist of multiple contributions to/from all active end-points optical network units (ONUs) [6].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Novel 3D printed synthetic dielectric substrates

Zhang

Njoku

Whittow

et al. 2015

Micro & Optical Tech Letters

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Novel 3D printed synthetic dielectric substrates

Zhang

Njoku

Whittow

et al. 2015

Micro & Optical Tech Letters

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Various materials can be considered, but thermoplastic based 3D printers are the most popular. Although the commonly used materials tend to have moderately high losses and the fabrication tolerance of low-end printers is presently of the order of 200 micron, the viability of a 3D printed lens antenna made of ABS (tan  = 0.008) for short range indoor wireless link at 60 GHz has been recently demonstrated (Bisognin 2014). A similar technique can be used to manufacture lenses using higher permittivity lower loss materials like Alumina (Ngoc Tinh 2010).…”

Section: Lens Fabricationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is particularly important in applications at millimetre waves like high bit rate communications at 60 GHz (Bisognin 2014) or automotive anticollusion radar at 77 GHz (Ka Fai 2014). Alternatively, the integrated lens can be used to shape the radiation pattern of the feed into a desired pattern.…”

Section: Overview Of Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dielectric Lens Antennas

Fernandes¹,

Lima²,

Costa³

2015

Handbook of Antenna Technologies

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Dielectric lens antennas are attracting a renewed interest for millimetre-and submillimetre wave applications where they become compact, especially for configurations with integrated feeds usually referred as integrated lens antennas. Lenses are very flexible and simple to design and fabricate, being a reliable alternative at these frequencies to reflector antennas. Lens target output can range from a simple collimated beam (increasing the feed directivity) to more complex multi-objective specifications.This chapter presents a review of different types of dielectric lens antennas and lens design methods. Representative lens antenna design examples are described in detail, with emphasis on homogeneous integrated lenses. A review of the different lens analysis methods is performed, followed by the discuss ion of relevant lens antenna implementation issues like feeding options, dielectric material characteristics, fabrication methods and a few dedicated measurement techniques. The chapter ends with a detailed presentation of some recent application examples involving dielectric lens antennas.

show abstract

“…The design of flat lens antennas have been discussed in several recent publications [1] - [7]. Such a lens antenna can be designed to have a high gain and wide bandwidth and still maintain its low-profile characteristics.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%