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Composite materials for microwave devices using additive manufacturing

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posted on 2016-05-16, 11:00 authored by Syed Bukhari, William WhittowWilliam Whittow, Shiyu Zhang, J. C. Vardaxoglou
Additive manufacturing has been combined with commercially available RF materials to synthesize composite materials whose relative permittivity can be controlled. A design equation for predicting the effective permittivity of these composite materials has also been presented. The relative permittivity of the composite materials was measured by fabricating patch antennas using these materials as the substrate. It has been demonstrated that by using Taconic, PLA and air, three materials with different dielectric constants, a large and nearly continuous range of relative permittivity values, from 1.47 to 6.00, can be realised.

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School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Electronics Letters

Volume

52

Issue

10

Pages

832 - 833

Citation

BUKHARI, W.G. ...et al., 2016. Composite materials for microwave devices using additive manufacturing. Electronics Letters, 52(10), pp. 832-833.

Publisher

© The Institution of Engineering and Technology

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2016-04-18

Notes

This paper is a preprint of a paper accepted by Electronics Letters and is subject to Institution of Engineering and Technology Copyright. When the final version is published, the copy of record will be available at IET Digital Library.

ISSN

0013-5194

eISSN

1350-911X

Language

  • en