Selecting Plastic Materials for Radomes: Balancing RF Performance, Environmental Factors, Manufacturability, and Cost

What This Webinar Covers

Material selection plays a critical role in radome performance, durability, and manufacturability. Engineers must weigh RF requirements against environmental exposure, processing constraints, geometry limitations, and cost, often with limited room for error once designs move into production.

This webinar focuses on how to approach plastic selection for radome applications with a practical, application-driven mindset. You’ll gain insight into how different material properties perform in real operating environments and how design and manufacturing decisions influence long-term outcomes.

Topics Include:   

• Plastic properties that influence RF behavior and signal performance
• How environmental factors such as temperature, UV exposure, and erosion affect material choice
• The impact of part design and processing methods on material performance
• An overview of commonly used plastics for radome applications and typical use cases
• Strategies for managing trade-offs between performance, manufacturability, and cost

Who Should Watch

• Engineers and designers involved in radome or RF component design and material selection
• Manufacturing, sourcing, and technical teams balancing performance, producibility, and cost
• Anyone evaluating plastic materials for new or existing radome applications

Why Watch

This recorded webinar provides practical insight into how plastic material properties, environmental conditions, and manufacturing constraints interact in radome applications.

By watching, you’ll gain a clearer understanding of how to reduce redesigns, improve RF performance, and make more confident material decisions earlier in the development process.