Design and development of a light weight microstrip patch antenna array for solar power satellite application

Author

Reddy, B. Sandhya ; Kumar, V. Senthil ; Srinivasan, V.V.

Author_Institution

Commun. Syst. Group, ISRO Satellite Center, Bangalore, India

fYear

2012

fDate

22-25 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper design and development of a light weight 2 × 2 rectangular linearly polarized microstrip patch antenna array operating at 5.8GHz is presented with simulated and measured results. This antenna configuration is mostly useful in satellite applications. The proposed antenna configuration is designed and optimized by simulation studies using Zeland IE3D simulation software, which is based on the Method of Moment (MOM).

Keywords

electromagnetic wave polarisation; method of moments; microstrip antenna arrays; microwave antenna arrays; solar power satellites; MOM; Zeland IE3D simulation software; frequency 5.8 GHz; light weight rectangular linearly polarized microstrip patch antenna array; method of moment; solar power satellite application; Antenna feeds; Antenna measurements; Arrays; Microstrip; Microstrip antenna arrays; Microstrip antennas; Micostrip patch antenna; corporate feed; linear polarization; patch array;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2013-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPCOM.2012.6290013

Filename

6290013