Characteristics of a high gain and light weight radial line slot antenna with honeycomb structure in 32GHz band for data link in space exploration

Author

Tung, Nguyen Xuan ; Jayawardene, Rushanthi ; Takano, Yasutomo ; Sakurai, Kimio ; Hirokawa, Jiro ; Ando, Makoto ; Amano, Osamu ; Matsuzaki, Takaomi ; Koreeda, Shuichi ; Toda, Tomoaki ; Kamata, Yukio ; Kawahara, Kosuke ; Tsuda, Yuichi ; Yoshikawa, Makoto

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 29 2012-Nov. 2 2012

Firstpage

154

Lastpage

157

Abstract

A light weight and very high gain radial line slot antenna (RLSA) for space exploration is designed, fabricated and characterized at 32GHz. More than 25000 slots are spirally arranged on the metal top plate with the uniform distribution over the aperture of 900mm diameter. The use of the honeycomb as the spacer in the parallel plate is indispensable because of its lightweight and compactness, though at 32GHz, this material is considerably lossy and also anisotropic if the cell size is too coarse.

Keywords

millimetre wave antennas; slot antennas; space vehicle antennas; RLSA; cell size; data link; frequency 32 GHz; high gain characteristics; honeycomb structure; lightweight radial line slot antenna; metal top plate; parallel plate; size 900 mm; space exploration; Antenna measurements; Apertures; Honeycomb structures; Loss measurement; Slot antennas; High Gain; Honeycomb Structure; Radial Line Slot Antennas; Space Exploration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), 2012 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Nagoys

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1001-7

Type

conf

Filename

6393874