A 3D printed helical antenna with integrated lens

Muhammad Fahad Farooqui; Atif Shamim

doi:10.1109/APS.2015.7304548

A 3D printed helical antenna with integrated lens

Muhammad Fahad Farooqui, Atif Shamim

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Abstract

A novel antenna configuration comprising a helical antenna with an integrated lens is demonstrated in this work. The antenna is manufactured by a unique combination of 3D printing of plastic material (ABS) and inkjet printing of silver nano-particle based metallic ink. The integration of lens enhances the gain by around 7 dB giving a peak gain of about 16.4 dBi at 9.4 GHz. The helical antenna operates in the end-fire mode and radiates a left-hand circularly polarized (LHCP) pattern. The 3-dB axial ratio (AR) bandwidth of the antenna with lens is 3.2 %. Due to integration of lens and fully printed processing, this antenna configuration offers high gain performance and requires low cost for manufacturing.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	324-325
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	9781479978151
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/APS.2015.7304548
State	Published - Oct 26 2015

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