A Narrowband 3-D Printed Invar Spherical Dual-Mode Filter With High Thermal Stability for OMUXs

Lu Qian; Yi Wang; Sheng Li; Abd El Moez A. Mohamed; Moataz M. Attallah; Talal Skaik; Paul Booth; Laurent Pambaguian; Cesar Miquel Espana; Petronilo Mart

doi:10.1109/TMTT.2022.3152795

A Narrowband 3-D Printed Invar Spherical Dual-Mode Filter With High Thermal Stability for OMUXs

Lu Qian, Yi Wang, Sheng Li, Abd El Moez A. Mohamed, Moataz M. Attallah, Talal Skaik, Paul Booth, Laurent Pambaguian, Cesar Miquel Espana, Petronilo Mart

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A 3-D printed narrowband bandpass filter based on spherical dual-mode resonators is presented in this article. It is designed for output multiplexers (OMUXs) using high-Q spherical dual-mode resonators. Realization is by laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) technology of Invar alloy chosen for its low coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE). Using PBF circumvents the alloy's manufacturability issues associated with its hardness in machining and free forming. Compared with polymer-based vat photopolymerization technology, PBF allows for direct metal manufacture of complex monolithic microwave components with better thermal-mechanical properties and higher power-handling capability. Using Invar can further help achieve high temperature stability of the filter in high-power operation. To demonstrate the proposed solution, detailed thermal-RF test at different temperatures was carried out. The experimental results of a 0.47% fourth-order silver-plated Invar filter with two transmission zeros verify the design and manufacturing. An insertion loss of 1 dB and an effective temperature coefficient of less than 2 ppm/K were achieved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2165-2173
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume	70
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TMTT.2022.3152795
Publication status	Published - 9 Mar 2022

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Keywords

3-D printing.
Couplings
Electronic mail
High-power filter
Invar
Iris
Laser stability
Powders
Resonators
Thermal stability
novel materials
output multiplexer (OMUX)
spherical resonators

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Radiation
Condensed Matter Physics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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