Slot-based CubeSat antenna with wide tunning capabilities

Rifaqat Hussain; Khaled Aljaloud; Abida S. Rao; Abdul Aziz; Yosef T. Aladadi; Ali H. Alqahtani; Saad Alhuwimel

doi:10.1002/mop.33593

Slot-based CubeSat antenna with wide tunning capabilities

Rifaqat Hussain^*, Khaled Aljaloud, Abida S. Rao, Abdul Aziz, Yosef T. Aladadi, Ali H. Alqahtani, Saad Alhuwimel^*

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Department of Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

A slot-based miniaturized antenna design for CubeSat applications that operate in ultra high frequency (UHF) band is presented. The proposed antenna design consists of a frequency reconfigurable (FR) slot-based antenna integrated on a Rogers RO4350 substrate. The frequency range covered by the FR antenna is 300–450 MHz. A single varactor diode is used to sweep the frequency of the design. The proposed meandered loop-slot antenna design is small in size and has planar geometry with overall substrate dimensions of 100 × 100 mm². The proposed downsized antenna with frequency reconfigurability is ideally suited for small satellite applications in the UHF band, especially CubeSats.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1664-1669
Number of pages	6
Journal	Microwave and Optical Technology Letters
Volume	65
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/mop.33593
State	Published - Jun 2023

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Keywords

CubeSat
UHF band
miniaturized antennas
reconfigurable
slot antennas

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Condensed Matter Physics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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