A Fully 3D-Printed Conformal Patch Antenna using Fused Filament Fabrication Method

Mitra, Dipankar; Striker, Ryan; Cleveland, Jerika; Lewis, Jacob; Braaten, Benjamin D.; Kabir, Kazi Sadman; Roy, Sayan; Ye, Shengrong

doi:10.1109/ieeeconf35879.2020.9329909

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“…To increase the efficiency and speed of manufacturing, it is convenient to use additive technologies -3D printing. It is already known that based on 3D printing technology, it is possible to manufacture lenses for antennas [3]; the use of metal printing makes it possible to implement complex designs, as in [4]; at the same time, the most advanced is the use of a conductive filament for FDM(FFF) printing technology [5,6]. The disadvantages of using such a material are its high cost -$ 215 per 100 grams, high wear of hotends due to copper chips, wear of the nozzle channel.…”

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Increasing the efficiency and speed of the full production cycle of printed antennas using additive technologies

Ishchenko,

Barannikov,

Bezrukaviy

et al. 2024

Third International Conference on Digital Technologies, Optics, and Materials Science (DTIEE 2024)

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The paper considers the process of developing and manufacturing prototypes of antenna devices based on printing technology. During the development of the model and its optimization, CST Studio Suite software was used, followed by processing of the antenna model in Autodesk Inventor and Altium Designer. Three methods were used for manufacturing, which were compared in terms of the speed of manufacturing antenna prototypes. Particular emphasis in the production process was placed on the introduction of additive technologies in the antenna manufacturing process.

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Increasing the efficiency and speed of the full production cycle of printed antennas using additive technologies

Ishchenko,

Barannikov,

Bezrukaviy

et al. 2024

Third International Conference on Digital Technologies, Optics, and Materials Science (DTIEE 2024)

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“…Previous research has extensively studied the electrical and mechanical properties of 3D printed and inkjet printed materials 7,8 , but very little attention has been given to the material characterization over the mmWave band. Although some past designs have demonstrated the 3D printed antennas, most of them focused on 3D printed rigid materials, such as horn antennas 9 and dielectric lenses 10 ; only a few reported flexible antennas with 3D printed substrates, including patch antennas below 5 GHz 11 and dielectric reflectarrays at 28 GHz 12 . Recently, the first flexible mm-wave on-package antenna with an embedded energy harvester has been reported 13 , utilizing SLA printing and inkjet printing.…”

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Additively manufactured flexible on-package phased array antennas for 5G/mmWave wearable and conformal digital twin and massive MIMO applications

Zhou

Sitaraman

et al. 2023

Sci Rep

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This paper thoroughly investigates material characterization, reliability evaluation, fabrication, and assembly processes of additively manufactured flexible packaging and reconfigurable on-package antenna arrays for next-generation 5G/mmWave wearable and conformal applications. The objective is to bridge the technology gap in current Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) designs at mmWave frequencies and address the challenges of establishing future design standards for additively manufactured flexible packages and System-on-Package (SoP) integrated modules. Multiple 3D printed flexible materials have been characterized for their electrical and mechanical properties over the 5G/mmW frequency band (26–40 GHz), and the inkjet printed interconnects on 3D printed Polypropylene (PP) substrates demonstrated excellent electrical and mechanical performance during a 10,000-time cyclic bending test over typical wearable flexible radii down to 1 inch. A proof-of-concept flexible on-package phased array with an integrated microfluidic cooling channel on 3D printed substrates was fabricated and measured, demonstrating $$\pm 37^{\circ }$$ ± 37 ∘ beam steering capability with efficient cooling. The proposed reconfigurable design and low-temperature fabrication approach using additive manufacturing can be widely applied to next-generation highly-complex on-demand FHE, flexible multi-chip-module integration, and on-package phased-array modules for 5G/mmWave wearable and conformal smart skin, digital twin and massive MIMO applications.

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A Novel Design for Flexible and Conformable 3D-Printed Dielectric Resonator Antennas for WiFi and IoT Applications

Chietera

Colella

Catarinucci

2022

2022 IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems (FLEPS)

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A Fully 3D-Printed Conformal Patch Antenna using Fused Filament Fabrication Method

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Increasing the efficiency and speed of the full production cycle of printed antennas using additive technologies

Increasing the efficiency and speed of the full production cycle of printed antennas using additive technologies

Additively manufactured flexible on-package phased array antennas for 5G/mmWave wearable and conformal digital twin and massive MIMO applications

A Novel Design for Flexible and Conformable 3D-Printed Dielectric Resonator Antennas for WiFi and IoT Applications

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