<p>Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is one of the promising techniques for fabricating prototypes with acceptable dimensional accuracy. However, little has been reported on the fabrication of rectangular waveguides (WR) by LPBF using 17-4 precipitate-hardened (PH) stainless steel (SS). This study reports the fabrication of WR (1.0&#xa0;mm × 0.3&#xa0;mm) with 17-4 PH SS by LPBF at laser power (LP) 120W, scanning speed (ScS) 1200&#xa0;mm/s, hatch distance (HD) 50&#xa0;µm, and layer thickness (LT) 30&#xa0;µm for resonance frequency (R<sub>f</sub>) applications in terahertz (THz) frequency range of the electromagnetic spectrum. The results based on scanning electron microscopy (SEM) suggest that the LPBF at the selected parameters resulted in surface roughness (Ra) and dimensional deviation (Δd) in the range of 0.43–0.52&#xa0;µm and + 0.010/− 0.030&#xa0;mm.</p>

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On 3D Printing of 17-4 PH SS Rectangular Waveguides with Laser Powder Bed Fusion

  • Bharat Kalia,
  • Rupinder Singh

摘要

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is one of the promising techniques for fabricating prototypes with acceptable dimensional accuracy. However, little has been reported on the fabrication of rectangular waveguides (WR) by LPBF using 17-4 precipitate-hardened (PH) stainless steel (SS). This study reports the fabrication of WR (1.0 mm × 0.3 mm) with 17-4 PH SS by LPBF at laser power (LP) 120W, scanning speed (ScS) 1200 mm/s, hatch distance (HD) 50 µm, and layer thickness (LT) 30 µm for resonance frequency (Rf) applications in terahertz (THz) frequency range of the electromagnetic spectrum. The results based on scanning electron microscopy (SEM) suggest that the LPBF at the selected parameters resulted in surface roughness (Ra) and dimensional deviation (Δd) in the range of 0.43–0.52 µm and + 0.010/− 0.030 mm.