Wideband Dual-Polarized 3D Printed Quad-Ridged Horn Antenna

Abstract

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Microstrip-Fed 3D-Printed H-Sectorial Horn Phased Array

“…The manufacturing cost and the weight can be considerably reduced by using plastic printing technologies such as the popular FDM. In [ 13 , 14 , 15 ], the authors all use the same FDM technique, with copper electrodeposition for the metallization of the whole of the inner and outer plastic parts. However, as the frequency increases and the manufacturing complexity increases, there will be tiny parts that can be very difficult to metallize.…”

“…In [ 12 ], a fully 3D-printed complex corporate feeding network with 256 horns was successfully manufactured using DMLS, but the cost was high. Many cost-effective horn antenna designs have been produced using FDM [ 13 , 14 , 15 ], but although they represent a large variety of applications and a successful manufacturing process, transitions from the horn to the ML (equivalent to RW–ML transitions) are usually required to provide an effective connection with the RF chipset, and this has not yet been reported in any research.…”

3-D Printed Dually Symmetric Orthomode Transducer and Horn Antenna at X-Band

“…These types of structures have been made in both traditional waveguide and substrate integrated waveguide topologies [1]- [13]. These OMTs combine two or more waveguide paths into a common waveguide by bending orthogonal guides together [9], using a series of matching structures [4], [7], [8], probe feeding a horn from multiple points [12], through waveguide turnstiles [1]- [3], [6], [10], or other balanced structures [5], [13] where the common waveguide is fed symmetrically with pairs of single polarization waveguides.…”

“…These types of structures can be used without additional steps to electroplate or smooth the structures. These have been seen for waveguide OMTs and multi-feed horns from microwave frequencies [12], [13] to mm-wave frequencies [11]. Since these parts are fabricated from metallic alloys they often weigh as much as traditionally machined parts.…”

Additively manufactured frequency selective surface for gain enhancement of sub‐6 GHzmonopole antenna

“…Recently, it has gained prominence even in the microwave community for manufacturing dielectric layers for antennas and other components. Various components such as horn antennas, [2][3][4][5] transmission lines, [6][7][8] array antenna systems, [9][10][11] printed antennas, 12,13 waveguide components, 14,15 and periodic surfaces [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] have been designed and developed using AM. Initially, methods like electroplating 8 or wire-mesh embedding 10 have been used to realize the conductive parts.…”