Development of a Ku-Band Corrugated Conical Horn Using 3-D Print Technology

Chieh, Jia-Chi Samuel; Dick, Brian; Loui, Stuart; Rockway, J. W.

doi:10.1109/lawp.2014.2301169

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“…Inhouse 3D printing with ABS material is easier and less time consuming, and pseudo-metallic antennas can be made by painting ABS parts with metallic paints. Another recent literature investigated Ku Band corrugated conical horn, printed and spray painted with metallic paint, and it was found to perform satisfactorily [5].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The structural integrity of the prototype also depends on the percentage infill [8,9]. Most 3D printed horns used a commercial coaxial adapter [4,5], but a DRHA cannot be fed with a commercial coaxial adapter. In this letter, an optimized design of a DRHA is presented and prototyped to evaluate the feasibility of manufacturing ABS based DRHA with embedded coaxial transition, and having satisfactory operational characteristics.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Additive Manufacturing of a Dual-Ridged Horn Antenna

Majumdar¹,

Baer²,

Chakraborty³

et al. 2016

PIER Letters

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Abstract-A 3D printed dual-ridged horn antenna (DRHA) is presented. The antenna design is optimized for additive manufacturing and is 3D printed using acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and then painted with nickel based aerosol spray. The coaxial transition is also included in the 3D printed prototype. The antenna was manufactured with the intention of improving learning and education of electromagnetism and antennas for undergraduate students using a low-cost personal desktop 3D printer. The painted DRHA has a 10 dB return-loss bandwidth of 6621 MHz (1905 MHz-8526 MHz) with a peak gain of 11 dBi. This prototype is the first known ABS-based horn antenna with the coaxial transition embedded into it.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Additive Manufacturing of a Dual-Ridged Horn Antenna

Majumdar¹,

Baer²,

Chakraborty³

et al. 2016

PIER Letters

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“…Such progress has attracted the interest of the antenna community, and several existent antenna designs created with the aid of the technology have been verified, including horn, waveguide, lens, reflectarray, patch, wire antennas, only to mention a few [4][5][6][7][8][9]. In addition, novel electrically small antenna (ESA) designs have been proposed that might be difficult to verify experimentally without 3DP technology [10,11].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigation of 3D Printed Electrically Small Folded Spherical Meander Wire Antenna

Kong

Shin

Lee

et al. 2017

J Electromagn Eng Sci

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The radiation properties and fabrication precautions of a 3D printed, electrically small folded spherical meander wire monopole antenna are investigated. The antenna is self-resonant and shows sufficiently high radiation efficiency at an electrical size ka of 0.4, with the radiation quality factor Q approaching the lower physical bound. In antenna fabrication, the possible structural deformation due to gravity is examined before the antenna frame is 3D-printed. The required conductivity is achieved by multiple manual paintings of a silver paste. The radiation efficiency and pattern show very good agreement with the computed expectations, whereas the resonant frequency deviates by 11.8%. The method to minimize such a fabrication error when using 3D printing technology for wire antennas is discussed. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ⓒ

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“…There have also been papers utilizing high precision 3D printed dielectrics to demonstrate THz, high frequency antennas and lenses [8] [9]. Only a few 3D printed antennas at radio frequency have been reported [10], [11] [12]. These previous reports utilize common 3D printing techniques such as fused deposition modeling and stereolithography.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These temperatures are still incompatible with many printed dielectrics. Pastes, aerosols and plating solutions are demonstrated on 3D plastic structures but this limits the flexibility of the process [10] [17]. It would be ideal to have a conductor that can be printed with the dielectric layer by layer.…”

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confidence: 99%