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Polymer-Based Additive Manufacturing of High-Performance Waveguide and Antenna Components

Dimitriadis, Alexandros I.
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Debogovic, Tomislav
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Favre, Mirko
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2017
Proceedings of the IEEE

In this paper, a lightweight horn antenna array demonstrator is designed and fabricated by means of an additive manufacturing (AM) process that has been optimized for complicated passive radio-frequency (RF) components. The presented design comprises a complex waveguide feeding network (WFN) which aims to exploit the increased flexibility offered by this novel fabrication technique. This WFN concept could be easily extended to larger antenna arrays with higher gain for full-size telecommunication applications. The electromagnetic performance of the featured structure is validated by means of full-wave numerical simulations. Fabricated prototypes of the WFN and of the complete antenna array are tested and are found to exhibit a promising agreement with the simulation results.

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DOI
10.1109/Jproc.2016.2629511
Web of Science ID

WOS:000398906000008

Author(s)
Dimitriadis, Alexandros I.
Debogovic, Tomislav
Favre, Mirko
Billod, Mathieu
Barloggio, Luca
Ansermet, Jean-Philippe  
De Rijk, Emile  
Date Issued

2017

Publisher

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc

Published in
Proceedings of the IEEE
Volume

105

Issue

4

Start page

668

End page

676

Subjects

Additive manufacturing (AM)

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antenna arrays

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copper plating

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stereolithography (SLA)

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waveguide feeding network (WFN)

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