scholarly journals Fully Integrated High Gain S-Band Triangular Slot Antenna for CubeSat Communications

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 156
Author(s):  
Mohamed El Bakkali ◽  
Moulhime El Bekkali ◽  
Gurjot Singh Gaba ◽  
Josep M. Guerrero ◽  
Lavish Kansal ◽  
...  

Among other CubeSat subsystems, Antenna is one of the most important CubeSat components as its design determines all the telecommunication subsystems’ performances. This paper presents a coplanar wave-guide (CPW)-fed equilateral triangular slot antenna constructed and analyzed for CubeSat communications at S-band. The proposed antenna alone presents high gain and ultra-wide band while its radiation pattern is bidirectional at an unlicensed frequency of 2450 MHz. The objective is to use the CubeSat chassis as a reflector for reducing the back-lobe radiation and hence minimizing interferences with electronic devices inside the CubeSat. This leads to a high gain of 8.20 dBi and a unidirectional radiation pattern at an industrial, scientific and mdical (ISM) band operating frequency of 2450 MHz. In addition to that, the presented antenna is low-profile and exhibits high return loss, ultra-wide impedance bandwidth, and good impedance matching at 2450 MHz.

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 38-44
Author(s):  
Shilpee Patil ◽  
Vinod Kapse ◽  
Shruti Sharma ◽  
Anil Kumar Pandey

In this study, a low-profile, co-planar waveguide (CPW) fed, wideband, and dual-ring slot antenna design for biomedical applications is proposed. The proposed antenna has a total area of 10 mm × 10 mm and a height of 0.4 mm, and is designed by using a thin and biocompatible FR4 epoxy (εr = 4.4) substrate to accomplish human body isolation and great flexibility obtained by implantation. This wideband antenna covers a large bandwidth of industrial scientific and medical (ISM) frequency band, including 902.8 MHz to 928 MHz, 1.395 GHz to 1.4 GHz, 1.427 GHz to 1.432 GHz, 2.4 GHz to 2.485 GHz, and above. The simulation results of return loss, voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR), impedance matching, gain, and radiation pattern of the proposed antenna are obtained through High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS) 14 software.


Author(s):  
B. Hammache ◽  
A. Messai ◽  
I. Messaoudene ◽  
T. A. Denidni

Abstract In this paper, a compact stepped slot antenna for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications is proposed. A very small size and UWB bandwidth operation are achieved by integrating a stepped slot in the back side of the antenna. This stepped slot is excited by using a 50 Ω-feed line in the top side of the antenna. The antenna is characterized by an impedance bandwidth between 3.05 GHz and more than 12 GHz. The dimensions of the antenna are 17 mm × 8 mm × 1.27 mm, which leads to the most compact size compared with other works in the literature. The integrated stepped slot is divided into additional elementary slots, where each elementary slot has a matching point. Adding these elementary slots allows to increase further the operating bandwidth. The radiation pattern of the compact stepped slot antenna is omnidirectional in the H-plane and bidirectional in the E-plane. The measurement results agree well with the simulated ones in terms of impedance matching and radiation pattern.


2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 403-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richa Chandel ◽  
Anil Kumar Gautam ◽  
Binod Kumar Kanaujia

In this paper, a novel design and experimental study of microstrip-line-fed rhombus-shaped slot antenna is presented. The proposed antenna shows an ultra-wide band (UWB) operation with good impedance matching by choosing appropriate rhombus-shaped slot and feeding structure. The proposed antenna has a simple structure and compact size as compared with many reported antennas. The measured results validate the design and the impedance bandwidth can operate from 2.78 to 12.92 GHz (10.14 GHz), which evidently covers entire UWB (3.1–10.6 GHz). Furthermore, the key parameters of the antenna are also discussed to study their persuade on the antenna performance.


2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-459
Author(s):  
Haixiong Li ◽  
Bozhang Lan ◽  
Jun Ding ◽  
Chenjiang Guo

In this paper, a high gain broadband low profile microstrip antenna with the dual-layered substrate and four parasitic metal elements is presented. The proposed microstrip antenna is mainly composed of four parts: four circular parasitic metal patches with dual arced breaches, a rectangular metal patch sandwiched between substrates, a square ground plane, and two-square substrates. The circular parasitic elements are the main radiation structure and determine the characteristics of the proposed antenna are closely related to the parasitic elements. The proposed antenna has been fabricated for experimental measurement. The reflection coefficient, radiation pattern, radiation efficiency, and gain have been studied in detail. The simulated and measured impedance bandwidth is 27.0% (3.30–4.33 GHz), the maximum realized peak gain reaches up to 6.52 dBi at the frequency of 3.65 GHz. The radiation pattern has a single peak which is perpendicular to the surface of the substrate. The proposed antenna is suitable to be applied in the 5G mobile or WiMAX wireless communication. Dual antenna with a pair of parasitic elements has been investigated numerically to explain the principle of the proposed antenna.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Hu ◽  
Rui-Na Lian ◽  
Zhao-Yang Tang ◽  
Ying-Zeng Yin

A wideband dual-polarized slot antenna loaded with artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) is proposed for WLAN/WIMAX and LTE applications. The slot antenna mainly consists of two pairs of arrow-shaped slots along the diagonals of the square patch. Stepped microstrip feedlines are placed orthogonally to excite the horizontal and vertical polarizations of the antenna. To realize unidirectional radiation and low profile, an AMC surface composed of 7 × 7 unit cells is designed underneath a distance of 0.09λ0 (λ0 being the wavelength in free space at 2.25 GHz) from the slot antenna. Both the dual-polarized slot antenna and the AMC surface are fabricated and measured. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed antenna achieves for both polarizations a wide impedance bandwidth (return loss 10 dB) of 36.7%, operating from 1.96 to 2.84 GHz. The isolation between the two input ports keeps higher than 29 dB whereas the cross-polarization levels basically maintain lower than −30 dB across the entire frequency band. High front-to-back ratios better than 22 dB and a stable gain higher than 8 dBi are obtained over the whole band.


2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 571-577
Author(s):  
Raghupatruni Venkat Siva Ram Krishna ◽  
Raj Kumar ◽  
Nagendra Kushwaha

A compact slot antenna for high-gain ultra wideband applications is presented. The slot is asymmetrically cut in the ground plane and is a combination of two rectangles. A hexagonal patch with two stepped coplanar waveguide-feed is used to excite the slot. The capacitive reactance of the hexagonal patch is neutralized by the inductive reactance created by the asymmetric slot and results into wider impedance matching. The measured impedance bandwidth of the proposed antenna is 11.85 GHz (2.9–14.75 GHz). The radiation patterns of the proposed antenna are found to be omni-directional in the H-plane and bi-directional in the E-plane. To enhance the gain of the antenna, a compact three-layer frequency selective surface (FSS) is used as a reflector. The overall thickness of the FSS is 3.5 mm. There is 4–5 dBi improvement in antenna gain after application of the FSS. The measured and simulated results are in good agreement.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (14) ◽  
pp. 4908
Author(s):  
Sun-Woong Kim ◽  
Ho-Gyun Yu ◽  
Dong-You Choi

This paper proposes a novel broadband octagonal patch antenna with parasitic patches. The proposed patch antenna is constructed with four parasitic patches around a central radiating octagonal element. It is illustrated that this arrangement can be used to improve the antenna bandwidth and gain when compared with that of conventional antennas. The proposed patch antenna is very simple, low-profile, and economical. The typical analysis of the proposed antenna is analyzed by the S11(S-parameter), the radiation pattern, and the realized gain. It can achieve an impedance bandwidth of 1.44 GHz and a high gain of 8.56 dBi in the 8.5 GHz band. Furthermore, the proposed antenna shows that the directional pattern and HPBW measurement results of E and H-plane were 70° and 74° at 8.5 GHz, and 74° and 83° at 9 GHz, and 47° and 42° at 9.5 GHz, respectively.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.8) ◽  
pp. 529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ch Ramakrishna ◽  
G A.E.Satish Kumar ◽  
P Chandra Sekhar Reddy

This paper presents a band notched WLAN self complementaryultra wide band antenna for wireless applications. The proposed antenna encounters a return loss (RL) less than -10dB for entire ultra wideband frequency range except band notched frequency. This paper proposes a hexagon shape patch, edge feeding, self complementary technique and defective ground structure. The antenna has an overall dimensionof 28.3mm × 40mm × 2mm, builton  substrate FR4 with a relative dielectric permittivity 4.4. And framework is simulated finite element method with help of high frequency structured simulator HFSSv17.2.the proposed antenna achieves a impedance bandwidth of 8.6GHz,  band rejected WLAN frequency range 5.6-6.5 GHz with  vswr is less than 2.


2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahar Chagharvand ◽  
M. R. B. Hamid ◽  
M. R. Kamarudin ◽  
Mohsen Khalily

This paper presents a single layer planar slot antenna for dual band operation. The antenna is fed by a coplanar waveguide (CPW) with two inverted C-shaped resonators to achieve the dual band operation. The impedance bandwidth for ǀS11ǀ < -10dB is 14% in lower band and 7% in higher band. The antenna prototype’s electromagnetic performance, impedance bandwidth, radiation pattern, and antenna gain were measured. The proposed configuration offers a relatively compact, easy to fabricate and dual band performance providing gain between 2 and 4 dBi. The designed antenna has good dual bandwidth covering 3.5 WiMAX and 5.8 WLAN tasks. Experimental and numerical results also showed good agreement after comparison.


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