Optically Transparent Subarray Antenna Based on Solar Panel for CubeSat Application

Zarbakhsh, Saman; Akbari, Mohammad; Farahani, Mohammad Reza; Ghayekhloo, Alireza; Denidni, Tayeb A.; Sebak, Abdel-Razik

doi:10.1109/tap.2019.2938740

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“…These antennas operate in S, C, and X bands and provide a total gain ranging from 4.8 to 30.5 dBi. Amongst all patch antenna designs listed in Table 3, i.e., those in [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28], the one in [15] and [16] have the smallest antenna physical size and hence they are suitable for use on 1U, 2U and 3U CubeSats. The design of [15] can also be implemented on the top of the solar cells because of its high transparency and hence allows for surface area reuse due to the integration of the antenna and solar cells.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, its main limitation is the resulting narrow bandwidth (i.e., 1.65%) which leads to low data rate. On the other hand, the design in [23] provides a wide bandwidth of 40% with a high gain of 15 dBi at 10 GHz (X-band). In terms of gain, the proposed deployable S-band antenna design in [20] has reported the highest gain, i.e., 30.5 dBi as compared to all other S-band antenna designs listed in Table 3.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In [23], Sarbakhsh et al presented a multifunctional, high gain and CP transparent subarray patch antenna for CubeSat remote sensing applications. The antenna operates in the Xband and has a total size of 10 mm × 10 mm.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The main limitation of the cavity approach, however, is the increased total antenna profile and weight as a consequence of the used cavity. The authors of [23,25,[35][36][37][38]57] used different types of cavity approaches that include fabry-perot cavity, metallic walls, cavity slot (meander lines), resonant cavity and cavity reflector. They reported gains ranging from 4-15 dBi and bandwidths ranging from 2.05-40% at different operating frequencies, i.e., UHF-band, S-band, X-band and Ku-band.…”

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Antenna Designs for CubeSats: A Review

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Cube Satellites, aka CubeSats, are a class of nano satellites that have gained popularity recently, especially for those that consider CubeSats as an emerging alternative to conventional satellites for space programs. This is because they are cost-effective, and they can be built using commercial off-theshelf components. Moreover, CubeSats can communicate with each other in space and ground stations to carry out many functions such as remote sensing (e.g., land imaging, education), space research, wide area measurements and deep space communications. Consequently, communications between CubeSats and ground stations is critical. Any antenna design for a CubeSat needs to meet size and weight restrictions while yielding good antenna radiation performance. To date, a limited number of works have surveyed, compared and categorised the proposed antenna designs for CubeSats based on their operating frequency bands. To this end, this paper contributes to the literature by focusing on different antenna types with different operating frequency bands that are proposed for CubeSat applications. This paper reviews 48 antenna designs, which include 18 patch antennas, 5 slot antennas, 4 dipole and monopole antennas, 3 reflector antennas, 3 reflectarray antennas, 5 helical antennas, 2 metasurface antennas and 3 millimeter and sub-millimeter wave antennas. The current CubeSat antenna design challenges and design techniques to address these challenges are discussed. In addition, we classify these antennas according to their operating frequency bands, e.g., VHF, UHF, L, S, C, X, Ku, K/Ka, W and mm/sub-mm wave bands and provide an extensive qualitative comparison in terms of their size, -10 dB bandwidths, gains, reflection coefficients, and deployability. The suitability of different antenna types for different applications as well as the future trends for CubeSat antennas are also presented.

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“…Several techniques, such as the use of a mesh antenna [2,3] and transparent material [5], have been employed to increase sunlight exposure. Usually, when the antenna and photovoltaic cell are integrated, they are independent of each other [6][7][8][9][10][11][12].…”

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Compact Slot Antenna Integrated with a Photovoltaic Cell

Ahmed

Wang

Yun

et al. 2020

J Electromagn Eng Sci

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This paper presents a compact low-profile slot antenna integrated with a photovoltaic cell. The photovoltaic cell consists of a top metal grid, gallium arsenide substrate, and metallic bottom contact. The metallic bottom contact was used as a ground plane where the slot was etched for resonance. A second substrate was placed under the ground plane, and a 50 Ω microstrip line was printed on its bottom side to excite the slot. A chip inductor was used as a radio frequency (RF) choke in the alternating current blocking circuit to suppress RF current leakage towards the photovoltaic cell. Hence, the proposed antenna has a unique feature of functioning simultaneously as a photovoltaic cell and an antenna. The overall dimensions––25 mm × 31.75 mm × 0.893 mm (0.48λo × 0.61λo × 0.017λo at 5.77 GHz)––of the photovoltaic cell-integrated slot antenna structure can be used effectively with Internet of Things devices.

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Orbital angular momentum wave generation/detection based on planar multi‐slot‐spiral circularly polarized antenna

Koohkan

Jarchi

Ghorbani

et al. 2021

Micro & Optical Tech Letters

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Orbital angular momentum (OAM) as vortex wave has potential application for dense communication. A multislot antenna is proposed based on Archimedean spirals to generate/detect the OAM waves. The antenna equips three radiation slots in a disk-manner to realize three different OAM modes simultaneously. A serial-fed microstrip array is designed for circularly polarized (CP) radiation. The lengths of the slots and microstrip lines are chosen to radiate at 3.5 GHz with 20% fractional bandwidth. So, it can identify the receiving modes of vortex wave with this mechanism. A prominent spiral phase plane is observed for the generated OAM wave. In addition, the far-field pattern presents a doughnut-shape beam. The whole antenna is fabricated on a 13 cm printed circuit disk board. Both the experimental and simulation results show that the proposed antenna has valuable features to produce different vortex modes.

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Optically Transparent Subarray Antenna Based on Solar Panel for CubeSat Application

Cited by 69 publications

References 35 publications

Antenna Designs for CubeSats: A Review

Antenna Designs for CubeSats: A Review

Compact Slot Antenna Integrated with a Photovoltaic Cell

Orbital angular momentum wave generation/detection based on planar multi‐slot‐spiral circularly polarized antenna

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