3D-Printed Sievenpiper Metasurface Using Conductive Filaments

Materials (Basel). 2020 Jun 8;13(11):2614. doi: 10.3390/ma13112614.

Abstract

This article presents the design, construction and measurement of different 3D-printed Sievenpiper metasurfaces. The structures were printed using a conductive filament combined with regular polylactic acid PLA. Measurement shows a good agreement on the electromagnetic behaviour of the stop-bands generated by the fully 3D-printed metasurface and the simulated ideal cases, but with higher transmission losses due to the characteristics of the conductive filament.

Keywords: 3D-printing; conductive filaments; electromagnetic metasurfaces; stop-band.