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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2021
The Government of the United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, Arlington, VA (US);
Alan G. Jacobs, Rockville, MD (US);
Boris N. Feigelson, Springfield, VA (US);
Abstract
RF susceptors manufactured by means of 3D printing. 3D-printed susceptors in accordance with the invention include susceptors having solid or mesh walls, where the susceptors are in the form of hollow cylinders, pyramids, spheres, hemispheres, ellipsoids, paraboloids, toroids, or prisms; flat planes; or other hollow or solid three-dimensional shapes. The 3D-printed susceptors can be formed from any suitable starting material, such as tungsten powder, graphite, silicon carbide, molybdenum powder, tantalum powder, rhenium powder, or alloys thereof, or can be formed such that some portions of the susceptors are formed from one or more materials while other portions are formed from different material(s).