Journal article
MXene‐Coated 3D Printed Horn Antennas for Ku Frequency Band
Advanced materials technologies, Forthcoming
24 Jan 2026
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Abstract
Demands for lightweight, scalable, and rapidly fabricated radio‐frequency components are emerging in aerospace and portable wireless communication systems. This work introduces a lightweight, additively manufactured MXene‐coated horn antenna operating in the Ku band (12 to 18 GHz). Aqueous colloidal Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene was applied to form conformal, conductive coatings on polymeric horn antenna surfaces to reduce the fabrication complexities. The performance of the MXene‐based antennas was investigated as a function of 3D‐printed polymer base filaments such as PLA, PET G, PA 6, and PA 12, 3D‐printing methods including FDM and SLS, and concentrations of MXene 32 and 18 mg g −1 . To demonstrate comparable electromagnetic performance, the fabricated MXene antennas were quantitatively compared with a conventional aluminum counterpart at the center frequency. The root‐mean‐square‐error of the average transmission coefficient, , was evaluated, where the difference in results indicates an RMSE below 0.34 dB, accompanied by a gain difference of only 0.2 dB. Furthermore, the correlation coefficient, r , was evaluated to assess the similarity of the responses, yielding values exceeding 0.98 for all tested antennas, confirming the high degree of agreement between the MXene‐based and conventional aluminum antennas.
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- Title
- MXene‐Coated 3D Printed Horn Antennas for Ku Frequency Band
- Creators
- Zahra Sarpanah Sourkouhi - University of British ColumbiaJamal Alhourani - Drexel UniversityYury Gogotsi - Drexel UniversityMohammad H. Zarifi (Corresponding Author) - Okanagan College
- Publication Details
- Advanced materials technologies, Forthcoming
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 11
- Grant note
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC): RGPIN-2025-04399 Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI): 38148, 37904 Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE), Korea, under the "Global Industrial Technology Cooperation Center program": P0028332
UBC-affiliated authors would like to thank the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for the support through Grant No. RGPIN-2025-04399. The authors are grateful to CMC Microelectronics for their support with software licenses, and Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) through Grant Nos. 38148 and 37904 for their support on instruments. The work at Drexel University was supported by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE), Korea, under the "Global Industrial Technology Cooperation Center program" (Grant No. P0028332) supervised by the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT).
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Materials Science and Engineering; A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001667982300001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-105028243989
- Other Identifier
- 991022156301604721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Materials Science, Multidisciplinary