3D Printing of Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Filters: Additive Manufacturing Technologies Applied in the Development of High-Performance Filters with Novel Topologies

Abstract

Three-dimensional (3D) printing, additive manufacturing (AM), digital manufacturing, and free-form fabrication are some of the synonymous expressions commonly used to identify the new class of processes through which objects are built by selectively adding material, usually layer by layer, instead of subtracting material, as in conventional machining techniques like chemical etching, laser-cutting, milling, and electroerosion [1].