Dual Sense Circularly Polarized Compact Slot Antenna for CubeSat Applications

Rifaqat Hussain; Muhammad Ikram; Abdullah M. Algarni; Sheikh Sharif Iqbal

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3212383

Dual Sense Circularly Polarized Compact Slot Antenna for CubeSat Applications

Rifaqat Hussain^*, Muhammad Ikram, Abdullah M. Algarni, Sheikh Sharif Iqbal

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Abstract

A dual feed dual sense circular polarized (CP) slot based wideband UHF antenna is proposed. The proposed structure is very compact which makes the design a suitable candidate for Cube-Sat applications. It consists of a hexagonal thin slot and two feeding transmission lines. In order to achieve CP, the two transmission lines are placed symmetrically with respect to the slot. The shape and location of transmission lines and slot structure are critical and achieved using a parametric analysis. To achieve wideband characteristics with a compact size, the slot is constructed with a capacitive loading. The design is fabricated on Rogers RO4350 with an overall board size of 60× 60× 1.52 mm3. The simulated and measured results have verified that the proposed antenna design operates over a wide frequency range from 360 MHz to 470 MHz.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	111732-111737
Number of pages	6
Journal	IEEE Access
Volume	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3212383
State	Published - 2022

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Keywords

Circular polarization
cube satellite
electrically small antenna
slot antenna

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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