Xenofon Konstantinou, Nicholas Sturim, J. Albrecht, P. Chahal, J. Papapolymerou
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This work focuses on the unique capabilities that aerosol jet printing (AJP) provides for manufacturing transmit/receive RF front-end modules for microwave and mm-wave applications. We demonstrate an additively manufactured (AM) transmitter system-on-antenna (SoA) at Ku-band, with the transmitter circuit being fully AM packaged on a conventionally manufactured Vivaldi antenna. The entire package is printed on-antenna via AJP around an amplifier die using a chip-first approach. Our transmit module achieves radiated power levels of 0.4-0.66 W, higher than other Ku-band SoAs in the literature. This work shows it is possible to realize high-functional-density RF front-end modules fully via AJP, overcoming the performance bottlenecks introduced by conventional manufacturing methods and reducing prototyping cost and time.