3D digital manufacturing and characterization of antennas integrated in mobile handset covers

Author

Arnal, Nicholas ; Ketterl, Thomas ; Weller, Thomas ; Wable, Girish ; Hue Thai ; Garon, William ; Gamota, Daniel

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2015

fDate

13-15 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper describes a study of dielectric and metallic 3D printing (additive manufacturing) processes that are candidates for digital manufacturing of integrated mobile phone client antennas. The integration of antennas into the packaging of commercial electronics is one of the important applications of emerging digital manufacturing techniques. A novel test fixture for in-situ characterization of digitally manufactured integrated antennas and handset covers is presented along with experimental results for prototypes that were manufactured using different printing processes.

Keywords

electronics packaging; mobile antennas; mobile handsets; three-dimensional printing; 3D digital manufacturing; dielectric printing; electronic packaging; integrated mobile phone client antenna; metallic 3D printing; mobile handset cover; Antennas; Electromagnetic heating; Frequency division multiplexing; Plastics; Printing; 3D printing; aerosol jetting; antennas; digital manufacturing; direct print additive manufacturing; fused deposition modeling; injection molding; mobile phones; plating;

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.2015.7120425

Filename

7120425