Method for using electroforming to manufacture fractal antennas
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorJamie Moore
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Abstract
One or more fractal antennas are produced in an electroforming circuit. A stainless steel on glass mandrel is covered with a dielectric in an inverse image of a fractal antenna to be formed. The portion of the stainless steel uncovered by the dielectric is chemically washed so that a fractal antenna formed thereon can be more efficiently removed. The mandrel is made a cathode in an electroforming circuit, which results in a fractal antenna being formed on the mandrel. The fractal antenna is separated from the mandrel and mounted on a rigid or semi-rigid substrate.
Claims7
A method for producing a fractal antenna, comprising:
- generating a photo-mask master of a fractal antenna;
- using the photo-mask master to generate a mandrel;
- electroforming a fractal antenna on the mandrel;
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- separating the fractal antenna from the mandrel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.