发明申请
- 专利标题: PLASTIC WAVEGUIDE-FED HORN ANTENNA
- 专利标题(中): 塑料波导天花板天线
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申请号: US12513496申请日: 2007-11-01
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公开(公告)号: US20100214185A1公开(公告)日: 2010-08-26
- 发明人: Firas Sammoura , Liwei Lin
- 申请人: Firas Sammoura , Liwei Lin
- 申请人地址: US CA Oakland
- 专利权人: The Regents of the University of California
- 当前专利权人: The Regents of the University of California
- 当前专利权人地址: US CA Oakland
- 国际申请: PCT/US07/83292 WO 20071101
- 主分类号: H01Q13/02
- IPC分类号: H01Q13/02 ; C25D3/48
摘要:
A plastic, waveguide-fed, horn antenna is manufactured using a three-dimensional (3D), polymeric micro hot embossing process. Two cavity resonators may be designed to reduce the impedance mismatch between the pyramidal horn antenna and the feeding waveguide. The waveguide-fed antenna may be fabricated using a self-aligned 3D plastic hot embossing process followed by a selective electroplating and sealing process to coat an approximately 8 μm-thick gold layer around the internal surfaces of the system. As such, this plastic, low-cost manufacturing process may be used to replace the expensive metallic components for millimeter-wave systems and provides a scalable and integrated process for manufacturing an array of antenna.