Evaluation and consolidation of Additive Manufacturing processes and materials for the manufacturing of RF hardware - Potential RF concepts identification and justifica-tion (TN-01)

This technical note reports a survey on the state-of-art concerning the additive manu-facturing of microwave components intended to Space-borne applications. Based on this survey, comparative analyses among the relevant AM technologies and component classes are reported. Finally, the RF concepts that can potentially benefit from an additive manufacturing approach compared to current products and conventional machining are proposed in view of the following project tasks.