A low-cost, single platform, hybrid manufacturing system for RF passives

摘要

This research introduces a low-cost, single-platform hybrid manufacturing process for realizing canonical and wideband antenna structures. This work outlines the printing processes of thick dielectrics & thin metallic geometries in coordination with selective removal of planar copper structures and provides a proof-of-concept demonstration of the first hybrid manufactured RF structures. Using the outlined processes, demonstration of a 6 GHz inset feed patch antenna and a Vivaldi antenna array prototype are presented first of their kind approach to realizing RF passives.