Title
Low-Cost Hybrid Additive Manufacturing of a Miniaturized Dual Band Stacked Patch Antenna for GNSS Applications
Author
Hehenberger, S.P. (TU Delft Microwave Sensing, Signals & Systems; German Aerospace Center)
Caizzone, Stefano (German Aerospace Center)
Yarovoy, Alexander (TU Delft Microwave Sensing, Signals & Systems)
Date
2024
Abstract
The utilization of low-cost hybrid additive manufacturing equipment for creating a fully integrated patch antenna system is demonstrated. A miniaturized stacked dual-band patch antenna for GNSS applications with integrated feed, amplifier, matching, and bias network is considered. Design and manufacturing challenges due to the peculiarities of hybrid additive manufacturing, like anisotropic substrates, thermal curing steps, and poor layer adhesion between different materials, are discussed, and solutions are proposed. In this work, the passive part of the antenna is manufactured, and its measured performance is compared to results obtained via numerical simulations. An excellent agreement between simulation and measurement of the passive antenna is observed. The results of the fully integrated and active antenna will be demonstrated at the conference.
Subject
patch antenna
dual band
additive manufacturing
3D printing
GNSS
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP60739.2024.10501211
Publisher
IEEE
Embargo date
2024-10-26
ISBN
979-8-3503-9443-6
Source
Proceedings of the 2024 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
Event
2024 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2024-03-17 → 2024-03-22, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Bibliographical note
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Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
conference paper
Rights
© 2024 S.P. Hehenberger, Stefano Caizzone, Alexander Yarovoy