Plastic injection micromachining of millimeter and sub-millimeter rectangular waveguide filters

Author

Park, Kyoung Youl ; Wiwatcharagoses, Nophadon ; Chahal, Premjeet

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

2-7 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

In this paper, plastic microinjection molded WR-3 rectangular metalized waveguides are demonstrated. The process is simple to implement and allows fabrication of complex 3D structures. Different types of waveguide filters are fabricated using this process and measured results are reported. Simulation results show that filters with good performance in the millimeter and sub-millimeter wave range can be attained using the proposed process. Preliminary measured results on fabricated filters are presented.

Keywords

injection moulding; micromachining; millimetre wave filters; submillimetre wave filters; waveguide filters; complex 3D structure fabrication; plastic injection micromachining; plastic microinjection molded WR-3 rectangular metalized waveguides; submillimeter rectangular waveguide filter; Bandwidth; Copper; Fabrication; Frequency domain analysis; Microwave filters; Plastics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), 2011 36th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Houston, TX

ISSN

2162-2027

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0510-6

Electronic_ISBN

2162-2027

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/irmmw-THz.2011.6105163

Filename

6105163