Additive Manufacturing of Linear Continuous Permittivity Profiles and Their Application to Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antennas

The utilization of additive manufacturing (AM) to engineer the permittivity profile of dielectric resonator antennas (DRAs) is considered. For the first time, the capabilities of AM are exploited to create continuously swept permittivity profiles and applied to cylindrical DRAs. The spatial variant...

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Published in:IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation 2023, Vol.4, p.373-382
Main Authors: Hehenberger, Simon P., Caizzone, Stefano, Yarovoy, Alexander G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
3D printing
additive manufacturing
Crystals
dielectric crystals
dielectric resonator antenna
Dielectrics
FCC
Geometry
Harmonic analysis
inhomogeneous permittivity
Lattices
Permittivity
spatially varried lattices
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Summary:The utilization of additive manufacturing (AM) to engineer the permittivity profile of dielectric resonator antennas (DRAs) is considered. For the first time, the capabilities of AM are exploited to create continuously swept permittivity profiles and applied to cylindrical DRAs. The spatial variant lattices (SVL) synthesis algorithm is implemented to create the desired permittivity profiles from a single material, and resulting geometries are manufactured using a high-permittivity material in a fused deposition modeling AM process. Three individual antennas for global navigation satellite system bands are designed and manufactured, two inhomogeneous DRAs with continuous permittivity profiles along the radial and vertical axis, and one homogeneous DRA for comparison. The manufactured antennas are characterized by impedance, realized gain, and axial ratio. Experimental results agree well with simulations and show increased impedance-, gain-, and axial-ratio bandwidths for both inhomogeneous antennas compared to the homogeneous one.
ISSN:2637-6431
2637-6431
DOI:10.1109/OJAP.2023.3258147