TY - JOUR
T1 - Additive Manufacturing of Linear Continuous Permittivity Profiles and their Application to Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antennas
AU - Hehenberger, Simon P.
AU - Caizzone, Stefano
AU - Yarovoy, Alexander
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - 3d printing
KW - additive manufacturing
KW - dielectric crystals
KW - dielectric resonator antenna
KW - inhomogeneous permittivity
KW - spatially varried lattices
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85151553592&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/OJAP.2023.3258147
DO - 10.1109/OJAP.2023.3258147
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85151553592
SN - 2637-6431
VL - 4
SP - 373
EP - 382
JO - IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation
JF - IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation
ER -