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Metal 3D-Printed 35–50-GHz Corrugated Horn for Cryogenic Operation

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All-metal 3D printing fabrication technologies provide an attractive alternative for direct manufacturing of waveguide components due to fast and cost-effective prototyping and the possibility to fabricate geometries which cannot be fabricated with traditional machining techniques. In radio astronomy, waveguide components in radio receivers are operated at cryogenic temperatures and inside a cryostat under vacuum conditions. In this paper, we report on the design, fabrication by 3D printing and testing at room and cryogenic temperatures of a corrugated horn to be used in astronomical receivers operating in the 35–50-GHz band.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank H. Sakai and N. Higuchi, at NTT Data XAM Technologies Corp., for discussions on 3D printing fabrication techniques and procedures to improve the quality of the fabricated prototypes. We would also like to thank M. Fukushima, K. Mitsui, and the NAOJ ATC Mechanical Engineering shop for their support with fabrication and mechanical engineering discussions; S. Asayama, T. Kojima, W. Shan, Y. Fujii, R. Sakai, and the rest of the NAOJ ALMA Development and ATC receiver teams for their support with measurements, preparation of some figures, and discussions; and S.-T.Chien and C.-T. Ho for their support with the measurement campaign at ASIAA/RCL.

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    A. Gonzalez & K. Kaneko

  2. Graduate University of Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Kanagawa, Japan

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  3. National Chung-Shang Institute of Science and Technology, Taichung, Taiwan

    C.-D. Huang

  4. Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Taipei, Taiwan

    Y.-D. Huang

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Gonzalez, A., Kaneko, K., Huang, CD. et al. Metal 3D-Printed 35–50-GHz Corrugated Horn for Cryogenic Operation. J Infrared Milli Terahz Waves 42, 960–973 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10762-021-00825-3

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