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

Li Wu; Cong Wang; Shusheng Peng; Yongxin Guo

doi:10.1109/LAWP.2019.2963747

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

Li Wu, Cong Wang, Shusheng Peng, Yongxin Guo^*

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Abstract

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 R_a = 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.

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Original language	English
Article number	8949483
Pages (from-to)	453-456
Journal	IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Volume	19
Issue number	3
Online published	3 Jan 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2019.2963747
Publication status	Published - Mar 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Conical radiation pattern
horn antenna
millimeter-wave (mmW)
three-dimensional (3-D) printing

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