3D Printed Multilayer mm-Wave Dielectric Rod Antenna with Enhanced Gain

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作者：

Lugo, Denise C. ^{[1
]}

Ramirez, Ramiro A. ^{[1
]}

Castro, Juan ^{[1
]}

Wang, Jing ^{[1
]}

Weller, Thomas M. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ S Florida, Dept Elect Engn, Tampa, FL 33620 USA

来源：

2017 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION & USNC/URSI NATIONAL RADIO SCIENCE MEETING | 2017年

关键词：

Additive Manufacturing; dielectric rod antenna; ceramic composites; millimeter wave; multi-layer; 3-D printing;

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中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

A multilayer dielectric rod antenna (DRA) design is proposed for mm-wave applications. The multilayer DRA is formed by a medium permittivity dielectric rod core encased by a low permittivity cladding to increase the peak gain. The antenna is fabricated using fused deposition modeling (FDM) of two thermoplastics; a ceramic composite material for the core and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) for the cladding. The antenna performance is measured from 30 to 40 GHz and the results are validated using numerical simulations. The peak gain of the multilayer antenna is over 22 dBi for the entire frequency range. The effect of the cladding on the antenna performance is to increase the gain by 3-8.5 dB, with a reduction in the half power beamwidth of 22 degrees at the center frequency. The multilayer DRA design offers high gain performance, scalability to other frequency ranges and low-cost fabrication.

引用

页码：1247 / 1248

页数：2

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