TY - GEN
T1 - Design of a C-band High Gain Microstrip Antenna Array for CubeSat Standard
AU - Juarez-Ortiz, Vladimir A.
AU - Perea-Tamayo, Robert
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/7/2
Y1 - 2018/7/2
N2 - This paper presents a low cost C-band microstrip antenna array with high gain, composed of 2 × 2 patches of 14.38mm by 18.42mm each, and compatible with CubeSat standard at 5.8 GHz center frequency. The feeding method is corporate feed network matched to 50 Ω line by different impedance lines. The patch's Mutual Coupling is decreased by rotating 45° each patch, obtaining a return loss of -32.02 dB, a Voltage Standing Wave Ratio of 0.4 dB and a maximum gain of 13.34 dB. Simulations with a 3U CubeSat structure with deployed VHF and UHF antennas shows little deviations. The final array size is of 74 mm × 74 mm.
AB - This paper presents a low cost C-band microstrip antenna array with high gain, composed of 2 × 2 patches of 14.38mm by 18.42mm each, and compatible with CubeSat standard at 5.8 GHz center frequency. The feeding method is corporate feed network matched to 50 Ω line by different impedance lines. The patch's Mutual Coupling is decreased by rotating 45° each patch, obtaining a return loss of -32.02 dB, a Voltage Standing Wave Ratio of 0.4 dB and a maximum gain of 13.34 dB. Simulations with a 3U CubeSat structure with deployed VHF and UHF antennas shows little deviations. The final array size is of 74 mm × 74 mm.
KW - Antenna Array
KW - Corporate Feed Network
KW - CubeSat
KW - Microstrip
KW - Mutual Coupling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85065677167&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/LAMC.2018.8699045
DO - 10.1109/LAMC.2018.8699045
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85065677167
T3 - 2018 IEEE MTT-S Latin America Microwave Conference, LAMC 2018 - Proceedings
BT - 2018 IEEE MTT-S Latin America Microwave Conference, LAMC 2018 - Proceedings
A2 - Fernandez-Del-Carpio, Gonzalo M.
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2nd IEEE MTT-S Latin America Microwave Conference, LAMC 2018
Y2 - 12 December 2018 through 14 December 2018
ER -