15–21 Jun 2025
Yerevan
Asia/Yerevan timezone

Manufacturing of large aperture parabolic mirrors using additive technologies for focusing microwave radiation

17 Jun 2025, 16:49
1m
IAPP NAS RA - Yerevan

IAPP NAS RA - Yerevan

Speaker

Mikhail Shevelev

Description

Three-dimensional printing is currently widely used for producing various microwave components, including radiation focusing. Therefore, additive technologies with subsequent metallization were chosen for the manufacture of large aperture parabolic mirrors. These mirrors can be used firstly in a scheme to detect the angular and orientation dependencies of transition radiation and other types of polarization radiation. Secondly, they can be used as part of an interferometer for spectral radiation measurements. This report describes the creation of 3D models and their printing on a 3D printer. It also provides data on applying a metal layer using magnetron sputtering, as well as data of modeling radiation focusing using geometric optics in the COMSOL Multiphysics package.

Author

Dmitry Shkitov (Tomsk Polytechnic University)

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