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A Novel Planar Antenna for CubeSatsJan VerwilligenPrem Sundaramoorthy
13th Annual Summer CubeSat Developers' Workshop
Small Satellite Conference - 2016
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Frequency bands
• UHF and VHF for communication
Radio amateur band
UHF: 435 to 438 MHz ; 70 cm
VHF: 144 to 146 MHz ; 2 m
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Antenna for UHF/VHF
• Wire antennas
– Deployment mechanisms
– Added mass
– Added volume
– Added complexity
Pictures from - Brouwers, Ubbels, Vaartjes, Hennepe . Lessons Learned in Space Systems. 59th International Astronautical Congress, Glasgow, 2008
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Problem statement
Can we develop a planar antenna for the
UHF downlink?
Antenna Requirements• The antenna shall be able to radiate over the UHF
frequencies• All antenna connections will have an impedance of 50 Ohm• The size of the antenna shall not exceed the dimensions of
a 3U CubeSat side panel• The patch shall not stick out more than 4mm• The antenna, if placed on the side, shall not be wider than
80 mm
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Patch Antenna
• Quarter Wavelength Patch
– S-band (2.4GHz) : 3.125 cm
– UHF (436MHz) : 17.5 cm
– GSM (900 MHz) : 8.33 cm
http://www.antennamagus.com/database/antennas/antenna_page.php?id=22
http://ahfr.dit.ie/node/26
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Planar Inverted F Antenna (PIFA)
Monopole
Ground Plane
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Planar Inverted F Antenna (PIFA)
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Planar Inverted F Antenna
• Design Equation
01 2
04 4r r
cL L H W
f
ò òHirasawa and Haneishi, Analysis, Design, and Measurement of Small and Low-Profile Antennas. Artech House on Demand, 1992
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• Impedance matching
– Maximum power transfer
– Z = R + jwL – j/wC
– Smith chart and return loss for analysis and
insight
Planar Inverted F Antenna
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Design Process
Create model
Impedance matching
Add Substrate
Resize antenna
Impedance Matching
• First estimates are derived with no substrate
• Sensitivity to impedance increases with addition of
substrate
• Software suite for computational electromagnetics –
FEKO
(FEldberechnung für Körper mit beliebiger Oberfläche )
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Results - Return Loss (without substrate)
• Measure of the amount of power radiated by the
antenna compared to the input power
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Results - Impedance Matching (without
substrate)
• Antenna impedance needs to be the same as
the impedance of the transmission line to
maximise power transfer efficiency
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Design Process
Create model
Impedance matching
Add Substrate
Resize antenna
Impedance Matching
• Substrate adds physical support between patch
and ground
• Reduces the size of the antenna
• Reduces bandwidth
01 2
04 4r r
cL L H W
f
ò ò
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Bandwidth and Impedance
• S11 <-30dB
• Bandwidth = 2.275MHz at -10dB
• Impedance 52.9 Ohm
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Radiation Pattern
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Conclusions – PIFA for UHF
Performance similar to dipole antenna
Smaller (Less volume and mass)
Higher reliability
Potential to be integrated in structure
Reduction in development time
Design Optimisation needed if a slightly
different centre frequency is requested
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Thank you
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Additional Slides
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𝜆 ≈ 2𝐿 𝜖𝑟𝐿 ≈ 𝜆/2√(𝜖𝑟)
W influences the input impedance