The fabrication of composite materials having digitally designed dielectric and magnetic properties varying on a voxel-by-voxel basis offers exciting prospects for additive manufacturing of gradient index lenses for radio frequency (RF) signals. Such lenses will, in the future, be custom printed to form application-specific beam patterns in RF communications systems such as cellular telephone, Wi-Fi, radar, and internet of things (IoT). Here we present materials and methods for the digitally controlled additive manufacturing of magneto-dielectric composites with dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability programmable on a voxel-by-voxel basis.
Khalid Masood, Tatiana Zaikova, Kenyon Plummer, Thomas Allen, James Stasiak, Paul Harmon, James Hutchison, Albrecht Jander, Pallavi Dhagat, "Design and Digital Fabrication of Magneto-dielectric Composites for Additive Manufacturing of Gradient Index RF Lenses" in Proc. IS&T Printing for Fabrication: Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP35), 2019, pp 94 - 99, https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2019.35.94