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Record W4367302173 · doi:10.1088/2399-6528/acd167

3D printed variable aperture horn with modular ridges

2023· article· en· W4367302173 on OpenAlex
Ian Goode, Carlos E. Saavedra

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Physics Communications · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicMicrowave Engineering and Waveguides
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsFrench hornAperture (computer memory)WaveguideAntenna (radio)Computer scienceOpticsMaterials scienceGeometryPhysicsAcousticsTelecommunicationsMathematics

Abstract

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Abstract 3D printing technology has significant potential to modernize the student laboratory experience in the area of electromagnetic wave propagation and scattering. In this contribution, a fast and low-cost method to 3D print and metallize a variable aperture horn and waveguide launcher are presented. The launcher converts a SubMiniature version A (SMA) coaxial connector to WR 187 waveguide (standard size of waveguide for 3.95 GHz to 5.85 GHz) and is printed from plastic while being metallized with aluminum tape. The launcher provided similar performance to an off the shelf launcher at one 40th the cost. As a teachable extension to this launcher a variable aperture horn is 3D printed and metallized with aluminum tape. The aperture area of the horn is changed by rotating the <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" overflow="scroll"> <mml:mover accent="true"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>E</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>⃗</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:mover> </mml:math> walls of the horn away from each other by use of pivot in the transition between the launcher and the horn. This horn showed the expected decrease in beamwidth and increase in peak gain as the aperture area was increased while maintaining a usable impedance match. Modular center ridges were also printed to demonstrate the utility of center ridges in a horn antenna without <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" overflow="scroll"> <mml:mover accent="true"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>H</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>⃗</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:mover> </mml:math> walls. Overall, a modular, inexpensive, and easy to construct waveguide system is presented that is useful for teaching electromagnetics specifically the relationship between aperture area and antenna gain, as well as providing a platform for waveguide experiments.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.892
Threshold uncertainty score0.330

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.224
Teacher spread0.208 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it