Miniaturized 3D printed balun using high-k composites

Author

Abdin, Mohamed M. ; Castro, Juan ; Jing Wang ; Weller, Thomas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

13-15 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

This paper presents a method to miniaturize a balanced-to-unbalanced (balun) transition using 3D printing while utilizing high permittivity polymer composites. The balun is a rat-race hybrid coupler utilizing three ports designed with a stack of ABS, high-k composite material, and LCP with permittivity of 2.6, 8.45, and 3.14 respectively. The balun is approximately 1.2 cm wide with a 3 dB power split and a 180 degree phase difference.

Keywords

baluns; composite materials; liquid crystal polymers; permittivity; three-dimensional printing; 3D printing; ABS; LCP; acrylonitrile butadiene styrene; balanced-to-unbalanced transition; balun transition; high permittivity polymer composites; high-k composite material; liquid crystal polymer; miniaturized 3D printed balun; power split; rat-race hybrid coupler; Extraterrestrial measurements; Lithography; Printing; Q measurement; Standards; Substrates; 3D printing; Balun; direct print additive manufacturing; fused deposition modeling; high-k material; rat-race coupler;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), 2015 IEEE 16th Annual

Conference_Location

Cocoa Beach, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAMICON.2015.7120428

Filename

7120428