Direct Printing of Curved Conformal Antennas

Conformal antenna has the characteristics of miniaturization, low profile and large aperture, which is one of the key antenna development trends in the future. How to realize the conformal printing of antennas has been a tricky problem. We propose a high-precision microdroplet jet printing method of conformal antenna, which realizes direct conformal antenna direct printing on curved surfaces. By theoretically deriving the directional map function of an arbitrary directed array, a conical conformal antenna model is established, and the directional map function of the conformal antenna array is obtained. The test results show that the strategy can accurately print a conformal antenna on a curved surface, and the antenna's operating frequency is basically the same as that of the design, with a small return loss, which can satisfy the performance and usage requirements, and it can provide a technical basis for the subsequent design and processing of conformal antennas.