• DocumentCode
    79629
  • Title

    Rapid Prototyping of Electrically Small Spherical Wire Antennas

  • Author

    Kim, Oleksiy S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
  • Volume
    62
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    Jul-14
  • Firstpage
    3839
  • Lastpage
    3842
  • Abstract
    It is shown how modern rapid prototyping technologies can be applied for quick and inexpensive, but still accurate, fabrication of electrically small wire antennas. A well known folded spherical helix antenna and a novel spherical zigzag antenna have been fabricated and tested, exhibiting the impedance and radiation characteristics in close agreement with those predicted numerically.
  • Keywords
    rapid prototyping (industrial); wire antennas; electrically small spherical wire antennas; folded spherical helix antenna; impedance characteristics; radiation characteristics; rapid prototyping technologies; spherical zigzag antenna; Antenna measurements; Dipole antennas; Helical antennas; Magnetic cores; Wires; 3D printing; electrically small antennas; nanocrystalline copper; rapid prototyping; selective laser sintering; spherical antennas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-926X
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAP.2014.2317489
  • Filename
    6798657