3-D Printed Wideband Millimeter-Wave Horn Antenna With Conical Radiation Pattern

A wideband millimeter-wave (mmW) circular aperture horn antenna with a conical radiation pattern realized by the metallic three-dimensional (3-D) printing technology is presented in this letter. The proposed structure consists of a coaxial waveguide and a quadruple-ridged conical horn. The horn ante...

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Published inIEEE antennas and wireless propagation letters Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 453 - 456
Main Authors Wu, Li, Wang, Cong, Peng, Shusheng, Guo, Yongxin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.03.2020
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
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Summary:A wideband millimeter-wave (mmW) circular aperture horn antenna with a conical radiation pattern realized by the metallic three-dimensional (3-D) printing technology is presented in this letter. The proposed structure consists of a coaxial waveguide and a quadruple-ridged conical horn. The horn antenna is fabricated using a direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) technology, and both manual polishing and yellow-gold coating are employed to realize a surface roughness of Ra = 1.6161 μm. The overall size of the fabricated antenna is 20 mm × 20 mm × 15.8 mm. Experimental measurements show that a wide relative impedance bandwidth of 60.7% and a peak gain of 11.4 dBi can be achieved within the frequency band of 24.9-46.6 GHz.
ISSN:1536-1225
1548-5757
DOI:10.1109/LAWP.2019.2963747