Use of 3D Printing for Horn Antenna Manufacturing

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26220%2F22%3APU144467" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26220/22:PU144467 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/60162694:G43__/23:00558011

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/10/1539" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/10/1539</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics11101539" target="_blank" >10.3390/electronics11101539</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Use of 3D Printing for Horn Antenna Manufacturing

Original language description

This article describes the manufacturing of a horn antenna using a 3D commercial printer. The horn antenna was chosen for its simplicity and practical versatility. The standardised horn antenna is one of the most widely used antennas in microwave technology. A standardised horn antenna can be connected to standardised waveguides. The horn antenna has been selected so that this antenna can be fabricated by 3D printing and thus obtain the equivalent of a standardised horn antenna. This 3D horn antenna can then be excited by a standardised waveguide. The 3Dprinted horn antenna with metallic layers has very good impedance characteristics, standing wave ratio and radiation patterns that are close to those of a standardised horn antenna. The 3D-based horn antenna is suitable for applications where low antenna weight is required, such as aerospace and satellite technologies. The article also describes a manufacturing procedure for a horn antenna (E-sector horn antenna) that is plated with galvanic layers of silver and gold. The design of the plated horn antenna in the Matlab application using the Antenna Toolbox extension is also described, including 3D printing procedures, post-processing procedures (plating) and practical testing of its functionality. The measured results are compared to simulations of the standardised horn antenna and then analysed.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20505 - Composites (including laminates, reinforced plastics, cermets, combined natural and synthetic fibre fabrics; filled composites)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Electronics (MDPI)

ISSN

2079-9292

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

10

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

1-16

UT code for WoS article

000803228300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85129750838