Development of an X-Band Reflectarray Antenna for Satellite Communications

An X-band reflectarray antenna using 16 × 12 double square ring elements for satellite communications is proposed in this paper. The feed is a 4 × 3 elements microstrip patch array designed to create edge taper of approximately − 10 dB. A prototype with right-hand circular polarization (RHCP) is man...

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Autores principales: Ma, Bing, Lu, Fan, Zhi, Guoping, Xue, Xin, Zhao, Xiangni, Ma, Chao, Fan, Yong, Yang, Mei
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7985410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33753751
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85132-6
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description An X-band reflectarray antenna using 16 × 12 double square ring elements for satellite communications is proposed in this paper. The feed is a 4 × 3 elements microstrip patch array designed to create edge taper of approximately − 10 dB. A prototype with right-hand circular polarization (RHCP) is manufactured and tested, and the good agreements between simulations and measurements are demonstrated. The good performance is obtained with the aperture efficiency of 40.7% and the 3-dB gain bandwidth of about 10% which is beneficial to nanosatellites.
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spelling pubmed-79854102021-03-25 Development of an X-Band Reflectarray Antenna for Satellite Communications Ma, Bing Lu, Fan Zhi, Guoping Xue, Xin Zhao, Xiangni Ma, Chao Fan, Yong Yang, Mei Sci Rep Article An X-band reflectarray antenna using 16 × 12 double square ring elements for satellite communications is proposed in this paper. The feed is a 4 × 3 elements microstrip patch array designed to create edge taper of approximately − 10 dB. A prototype with right-hand circular polarization (RHCP) is manufactured and tested, and the good agreements between simulations and measurements are demonstrated. The good performance is obtained with the aperture efficiency of 40.7% and the 3-dB gain bandwidth of about 10% which is beneficial to nanosatellites. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7985410/ /pubmed/33753751 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85132-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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