A Low Profile, Ultra-Lightweight, High Efficient Circularly-Polarized Antenna Array for Ku Band Satellite Applications

Jianquan Huang; Wei Lin; Feng Qiu; Chunzhi Jiang; Dajun Lei; Y. Jay Guo

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2750318

A Low Profile, Ultra-Lightweight, High Efficient Circularly-Polarized Antenna Array for Ku Band Satellite Applications

Jianquan Huang
, Wei Lin
, Feng Qiu
, Chunzhi Jiang
, Dajun Lei
, Y. Jay Guo

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Abstract

A novel low-profile, ultra-lightweight, high-efficient circularly polarized (CP) planar patch antenna array is reported for Ku-band satellite TV reception applications. The basic radiating element of the antenna array is realized by a $2 \times 2$ corner-removed patch subarray. This $2 \times 2$ patch subarray is center-fed by a rectangular coupling aperture etched on the top surface of a substrate-integrated-waveguide cavity. A novel compact sequential rotation feeding technique is adopted to broaden the operating bandwidth without occupying additional area. The $2 \times 2$ CP subarray can be easily scaled up for large size antenna arrays due to its single layer feeding network and compact radiating elements. In addition, the patch radiators are printed on a thin layer of Polyimide film backed by a piece of supporting foam to minimize the entire weight. To verify the design concept, a 96-element ( $16 \times 6$ ) CP patch array was fabricated and tested. Measured results show that the operating bandwidth is 700 MHz from 11.55 to 12.25 GHz. The gain is stable across the operating bandwidth with a realized peak gain of 26.4 dBic. The height of the antenna is $0.05~\lambda {0}$ and the total weight is only 66.5 g. It serves as an excellent candidate for Ku-band satellite applications.

Original language	English
Article number	8030059
Pages (from-to)	18356-18365
Journal	IEEE Access
Volume	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2750318
Publication status	Published - Sept 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

CP antenna array
Ku band satellite applications
lightweight
low profile
patch antennas
sequentially rotating excitation method
SIW feeding network

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General Computer Science
General Materials Science
General Engineering

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