£3.9m to develop 3d printed RF PCBs in the UK
Loughborough University is to develop an additive manufacturing technique to produce PCBs for RF circuits, removing the waste associated with the conventional etch-laminate-and-plate process. The process has been branded Symeta (synthesising 3d metamaterials, pronounced sci-meta) and has £3.9m funding from the EPSRC. “Now we have a ground plane, components and transmission lines,” Professor Yiannis Vardaxoglou ...