3D-printing has been used for rapidly prototyping a low-cost and light-weight dielectric Fresnel zone plate lens. This lens was comprised of four dielectric zones and they were fabricated in one process with the tailored permittivities. Measurements show that this lens provides 7.3–12.8 dB gain enhancement over the frequency band from 8 to 12 GHz.
Funding
This work was supported by the EPSRC Doctoral
Prize Research Fellowship.
History
School
Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in
Electronics Letters
Volume
52
Issue
10
Pages
833 - 835
Citation
ZHANG, S., 2016. Design and fabrication of 3D-printed planar Fresnel zone plate lens. Electronics Letters, 52 (10), pp. 833 - 835
Publisher
IET
Version
VoR (Version of Record)
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Publication date
2016
Notes
This is an open access article published by the IET under the Creative
Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
by/3.0/)
Slides giving the design principle about the 3D-printed planar Fresnel zone plate lens are available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.17028/rd.lboro.4665520