Wide-band gain enhancement of a pyramidal horn antenna with a 3D-printed epsilon-positive and epsilon-near-zero metamaterial lens—CORRIGENDUM

Abstract In this article, we present a simple, low-cost solution for the gain enhancement of a conventional pyramidal horn antenna using additive manufacturing. A flat, metamaterial lens consisting of three-layer metallic grid wire is implemented at the aperture of the horn. The lens is separated into two regions; namely epsilon-positive and epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) regions. The structure of the ENZ region is constructed accounting the variation of relative permittivity in the metamaterial. By the phase compensation property imparted by the metamaterial lens, more focused beams are obtained. The simulated and measured results clearly demonstrate that the metamaterial lens enhances the gain over an ultra-wide frequency band (10–18 GHz) compared to the conventional horn with the same physical size. A simple fabrication process using a 3D printer is introduced, and has been successfully applied. This result represents a remarkable achievement in this field, and may enable a comprehensive solution for satellite and radar systems as a high gain, compact, light-weighted, broadband radiator.

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3D Printed Wideband Circularly Polarized Pyramidal Horn Antenna with Binomial Polarizer for CP-SAR Application

2020 IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) ◽

10.1109/apmc47863.2020.9331626 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Agus Hendra Wahyudi ◽

Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo ◽

Folin Oktafiani ◽

Hardi Nusantara ◽

Ari Sugeng Budiyanta ◽

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Keyword(s):

Horn Antenna ◽

Circularly Polarized ◽

Pyramidal Horn ◽

3D Printed

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3D printed pyramidal horn antenna for K band frequency applications

Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X ◽

10.1117/12.2563079 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Luis Cuevas ◽

Guillaume Serandour ◽

Rafael Rodriguez ◽

Daniel Lühr ◽

Rodrigo Reeves

Keyword(s):

Horn Antenna ◽

Band Frequency ◽

Pyramidal Horn ◽

3D Printed ◽

K Band

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3D Printed Wideband Circularly Polarized Pyramidal Horn Antenna

2018 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS-Toyama) ◽

10.23919/piers.2018.8597894 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Agus Hendra Wahyud ◽

Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo ◽

Ari Sugeng Budiyanta ◽

Achmad Munir

Keyword(s):

Horn Antenna ◽

Circularly Polarized ◽

Pyramidal Horn ◽

3D Printed

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A metallic 3D printed K ‐band quasi‐pyramidal‐horn antenna array

International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering ◽

10.1002/mmce.22217 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 (7) ◽

Author(s):

Zhaoyan Wang ◽

Bing Zhang ◽

Kama Huang

Keyword(s):

Antenna Array ◽

Horn Antenna ◽

Pyramidal Horn ◽

3D Printed ◽

K Band

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Gain Enhancement of a Traditional Horn Antenna using 3D Printed Square-Shaped Multi-layer Dielectric Lens for X-band Applications

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society ◽

10.47037/2020.aces.j.360203 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 132-138

Author(s):

Aysu Belen ◽

Peyman Mahouti ◽

Filiz Gunes ◽

Ozlem Tari

Keyword(s):

Fused Deposition Modeling ◽

Horn Antenna ◽

Dielectric Constants ◽

Invasive Weed ◽

Gain Enhancement ◽

Fused Deposition ◽

X Band ◽

Comparison Results ◽

Dielectric Lens ◽

3D Printed

In this work, gain of a traditional horn antenna is enhanced up to 2.9 dB over X-band using 3D printed square-shaped multi-layer lens. For this purpose, firstly the multi-layer lenses are designed using Invasive Weed Optimization (IWO) and simulated in 3-D CST Microwave Studio (MWS) environment as consisting of square-shaped five layers with variable dielectric constants and heights. Thus, optimum values of the dielectric constants and heights are resulted limiting from 1.15 to 2.1 and 9.2 mm to 10 mm, respectively compatible for Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) based 3D-printing process. Finally, the optimum lens is realized by 3D printer via FDM evaluating infill rate of cheap Polylactic Acid (PLA) material for each layer. The simulated and measured performance of the multi-layer dielectric structures are hand to hand. The horn antenna equipped by our proposed dielectric lens achieves gain enhancement of the traditional antenna up to 2.9 dB over the operation band. Furthermore, the proposed design is compared with the counterpart designs in literature and based on the comparison results it can be said that the proposed design achieves the better performance in the smaller in size as equipped a traditional X-band horn antenna.

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A Horn Antenna Covered with a 3D-Printed Metasurface for Gain Enhancement

Electronics ◽

10.3390/electronics10020119 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 119

Author(s):

Sujan Shrestha ◽

Affan A. Baba ◽

Syed Muzahir Abbas ◽

Mohsen Asadnia ◽

Raheel M. Hashmi

Keyword(s):

Phase Transformation ◽

3D Printing ◽

Low Cost ◽

Horn Antenna ◽

Side Lobe ◽

Lower Phase ◽

Gain Enhancement ◽

Unit Cells ◽

Phase Variations ◽

3D Printed

A simple metasurface integrated with horn antenna exhibiting wide bandwidth, covering full Ku-band using 3D printing is presented. It consists of a 3D-printed horn and a 3D-printed phase transformation surface placed at the horn aperture. Considering the non-uniform wavefront of 3D printed horn, the proposed 3D-printed phase transformation surface is configured by unit cells, consisting of a cube in the centre which is supported by perpendicular cylindrical rods from its sides. Placement of proposed surface helps to improve the field over the horn aperture, resulting in lower phase variations. Both simulated and measured results show good radiation characteristics with lower side lobe levels in both E- and H-planes. Additionally, there is an overall increment in directivity with peak measured directivity up to 24.8 dBi and improvement in aperture efficiency of about 35% to 72% in the frequency range from 10–18 GHz. The total weight of the proposed antenna is about 345.37 g, which is significantly light weight. Moreover, it is a low cost and raid manufacturing solution using 3D printing technology.

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Horn Antenna

Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies - Analyzing the Physics of Radio Telescopes and Radio Astronomy ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-2381-0.ch008 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 144-177

Author(s):

Hirokazu Kobayashi

Keyword(s):

Cross Sections ◽

Wide Band ◽

Horn Antenna ◽

High Gain ◽

Field Method ◽

Common Element ◽

Microwave Antennas ◽

Gain Measurement ◽

Pyramidal Horn ◽

Overall Performance

One of the simple and most widely used microwave antennas is the horn as a feed element for large radio telescopes, satellite tracking, and communication reflector, which are found installed throughout the world. In addition to its utility as a feed for reflectors and lenses, it is a common element of phased arrays and serves as a universal standard for calibration and gain measurement of other high gain antennas. Its widespread applicability stems from its simplicity in construction, ease of excitation, large gain, wide-band characteristics, and preferred overall performance. An electromagnetic horn can take many different forms, such as basic pyramidal, conical, corrugated, double-ridged, and dual polarized horns, as well as horns with lens and so on. The horn is nothing more than a hollow pipe of different cross-sections, which has been tapered to a larger opening aperture. This chapter explains the fundamentals of the pyramidal horn antenna in detail using aperture field method. Numerical and measured examples, are also shown.

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