*New* Lightweight Antennas
About the technology
Q-par Angus Ltd has been working in collaboration with their industrial partners to produce some truly innovative antenna designs. They have developed and perfected a radical new production process for the manufacture of microwave components. The new technology is based on a plastic substrate produced by stereo lithography that is subsequently metallised, either electroless copper coated or silver sprayed.
The new process is a significant improvement on ion deposited injection moulded components since no complex expensive tooling is required for moulding and there are no restrictions on the geometry of the components.
No expensive mandrels for electroforming are required and consequently novel and non standard items can be produced without the need for high non recurring engineering costs.
The Q-par Angus range of metallised plastic components are direct replacements for microwave horns including broad band dual polar horns, and other antennas including biconical antennas, either electroformed or fabricated. A frequency range of approximately 0.5 GHz to 40 GHz. can be covered.
Advantages
The most obvious advantage that these antennas have is the massive weight saving achieved in comparison to standard products, however there are further advantages.
- Weight saving typically 80% over equivalent copper component
- Low weight ideal for aircraft applications
- Low mass ideal for rotating radar applications
- Silver coating available
- High manufactured tolerance repeatability. Better than +/- 10 micron on all dimensions.
- Reduced turn round order to delivery.
- Equally suitable for small or large production runs.
- Production of complex components previously considered uneconomic to manufacture. For example one off designs for research projects could be produced within tight budgets.
- Direct replacement of solid metal equivalent.
Q-par Angus Ltd. are world leaders in this ground breaking technology and have the on-site engineers to guide you and help you make use of this novel process.
