TY - GEN
T1 - Miniaturized Transparent Slot Antenna for 1U and 2U CubeSats
T2 - 13th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies, ICCCNT 2022
AU - Benhmimou, Boutaina
AU - Hussain, Niamat
AU - Gupta, Nancy
AU - Laamara, Rachid Ahl
AU - Guerrero, Josep M.
AU - Kogut, Aleksandr
AU - Annino, Giuseppe
AU - Arora, Sandeep Kumar
AU - Rahim, Mohamad Kamal A.
AU - El Bakkali, Mohamed
AU - Arpanaei, Farhad
AU - Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In this paper, a transparent parasitic slot antenna is proposed for 1U and 2U CubeSats. The proposed antenna is low profile and present physical size suitable for all CubeSat configurations. Moreover, the proposed study introduces a tradeoff between two electromagnetic/ Satellite aims. The first one is about space for the CubeSat solar panels, which is preferred to be wide for producing the maximum energy possible. The second is about the use of CubeSat top face for increasing the antenna peak gain at X-band. The proposed parasitic slot antenna is designed and optimized using ANSYS HFSS and Quasi Newtonian method. The obtained results show that the antenna gain is increased by about 7.0 dBi and 8.0 dBi for both 1U and 2U CubeSats, respectively. In addition to that, the proposed antenna gives large impedance bandwidth of about 600 MHz at X-Band. In general, the constructed transparent slot antenna with parasitic elements mounted on both 1U / 2U CubeSat box presents high antenna performances that make it very candidate for unlimited lifetime CubeSat Communication.
AB - In this paper, a transparent parasitic slot antenna is proposed for 1U and 2U CubeSats. The proposed antenna is low profile and present physical size suitable for all CubeSat configurations. Moreover, the proposed study introduces a tradeoff between two electromagnetic/ Satellite aims. The first one is about space for the CubeSat solar panels, which is preferred to be wide for producing the maximum energy possible. The second is about the use of CubeSat top face for increasing the antenna peak gain at X-band. The proposed parasitic slot antenna is designed and optimized using ANSYS HFSS and Quasi Newtonian method. The obtained results show that the antenna gain is increased by about 7.0 dBi and 8.0 dBi for both 1U and 2U CubeSats, respectively. In addition to that, the proposed antenna gives large impedance bandwidth of about 600 MHz at X-Band. In general, the constructed transparent slot antenna with parasitic elements mounted on both 1U / 2U CubeSat box presents high antenna performances that make it very candidate for unlimited lifetime CubeSat Communication.
KW - 1U and 2U CubeSats
KW - Glass material
KW - Parasitic Elements
KW - Transparent Antennas
KW - unlimited lifetime missions
KW - X-band
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85146311203
U2 - 10.1109/ICCCNT54827.2022.9984279
DO - 10.1109/ICCCNT54827.2022.9984279
M3 - Conference Publication
AN - SCOPUS:85146311203
T3 - 2022 13th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies, ICCCNT 2022
BT - 2022 13th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies, ICCCNT 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 3 October 2022 through 5 October 2022
ER -