Additive Antenna Manufacturing ADAM

Project: Additive Antenna Manufacturing

Acronym: ADAM_3D

Main Objective:
Additive manufacturing, or 3D-printing, is bringing a revolution to most engineering areas. It is not just about changing fabrication processes and materials, but more importantly, enabling powerful new concepts and designs not feasible or affordable with traditional manufacturing. In parallel, personal communications present a meteoric evolution that impregnates each one’s life and habits. This growth will continue embodying concepts like the Internet of Things (IoT) and next generation mobile communications (5G). It will transparently link much more users, machines, sensors and virtual nodes through land and satellite infrastructures. It requires effective low-cost solutions for mass-market. AM will play a role, and antennas are a key player in wireless systems. The project focuses on the development of new antenna concepts benefitting from opportunities offered by AM, aiming at different aspects of IoT, 5G and associated applications, including body-area networks.

Reference: 030323

Funding: FCT

Start Date: 01-06-2018

End Date: 01-06-2021

Team: Jorge Manuel Lopes Leal Rodrigues da Costa, Carlos Antonio Cardoso Fernandes, Sérgio de Almeida Matos, João Manuel de Almeida Monteiro Felício, António Miguel Castanheira Afonso de Almeida, Ana Catarina Caniço Cruz, Jorge Pedro da Costa Mendes Teixeira

Groups: Antennas and Propagation – Lx

Partners: IT

Local Coordinator: Jorge Manuel Lopes Leal Rodrigues da Costa

Associated Publications

3Papers in Journals
P. Naseri, S.A. Matos, E.B. Lima, J.R. Costa, C. A. Fernandes, N. Fonseca, Efficient Evaluation of Gradient Transmit-Arrays through an Equivalent Dispersive Dielectric Description, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 67, No. 9, pp. 5997 - 6007, September, 2019,
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J.F. Felício, J. Bioucas-Dias, J.R. Costa, C. A. Fernandes, Antenna Design and Near-field Characterization for Medical Microwave Imaging Applications, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 67, No. 7, pp. 4811 - 4824, July, 2019,
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E.B. Lima, J.R. Costa, C. A. Fernandes, Multiple-beam Focal-plane Dual-band Fabry-Perot Cavity Antenna with Reduced Beam-degradation, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 67, No. 7, pp. 4348 - 4356, July, 2019,
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6Papers in Conferences
S.A. Matos, J.R. Costa, P. Naseri, E.B. Lima, C. A. Fernandes, N. Fonseca, Efficient Full-Wave Method For Analysing TransmitArrays Through an Equivalent Dielectric Description, IEEE International Symp. on Antennas and Propagation - IEEE AP-S/USNC-URSI, Atlanta, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, July, 2019,
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J.F. Felício, S.A. Matos, J.R. Costa, A.A. Almeida, C. A. Fernandes, Wrist-Worn RFID Antenna Printed on Additive Manufactured Flexible Substrate, IEEE International Symp. on Antennas and Propagation - IEEE AP-S/USNC-URSI, Atlanta, United States, Vol., pp. -, July, 2019,
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Catarina C. Cruz, C. A. Fernandes, S.A. Matos, J.R. Costa, Phase-only Shaped Beam Transmit-Array, IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp., Boston, United States, Vol., pp. -, July, 2018,
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N. Nachabe, C. Luxey, D. Titz, F. Gianesello, J.R. Costa, S.A. Matos, C. A. Fernandes, Low-Cost Wide-Band V-Band Patch Antenna on FR4 PCB, IEEE International Symp. on Antennas and Propagation - IEEE AP-S/USNC-URSI, Boston, United States, Vol., pp. -, July, 2018,
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S.A. Matos, J.R. Costa, E.B. Lima, P. Naseri, C. A. Fernandes, N. Fonseca, Wide-angle mechanical scanning Transmit-arrays for satellite Ka-band user terminals, IEEE AP-S/URSI International Symp., Boston, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, July, 2018,
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A. F. Vaquero, M. Arrebola, M. R. Pino, S.A. Matos, J.R. Costa, C. A. Fernandes, Low-cost Dielectric Flat Lens for Near-Field Focusing, IEEE International Symp. on Antennas and Propagation - IEEE AP-S/USNC-URSI, Boston, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, July, 2018,
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1Thesis
Planar antennas for cubesat missions, Instituto Superior Técnico, MSc Student, Tomás Alexandre Saltão Almeida, Supervisor: C. A. Fernandes, Co-supervisor: J.R. Costa, set-2017 - nov-2018

Project / ADAM_3D

Project: Additive Antenna Manufacturing