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2018-07-10
Design and Realization of Circular Polarized SIW Slot Array Antenna for Cubesat Intersatellite Links
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 77, 81-88, 2018
Abstract
This paper presents the design and fabrication of an antenna based on Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) for intersatellite crosslinks in C-band. The entire antenna consists of two elements of SIW slots array that is fed by a hybrid 3 dB directional coupler. The entire SIW slot array antenna is circularly polarized (CP), and each element has four longitudinal slots. The element's effective field matching is realized with a microstrip to SIW transition. The antenna design has been evaluated with its return loss, gain plot, and radiation pattern characteristics to validate the fabricated antenna. The fabricated prototype antenna radiates a left-handed circularly polarized (LHCP) electromagnetic wave with the peak gain of 5 dB and offers approximately 2% AR bandwidth around 5 GHz.
Citation
Maha A. Maged, Fatma El-Hefnawi, Haitham M. Akah, Abdelrahman El-Akhdar, and Hadia El-Hennawy, "Design and Realization of Circular Polarized SIW Slot Array Antenna for Cubesat Intersatellite Links," Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 77, 81-88, 2018.
doi:10.2528/PIERL18040704
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