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Design of a Metamaterial-Based Low-Profile Antenna Mounted on LEO/Cube Satellites  

Han, Dajung (인천대학교 정보통신공학과 전파공학 및 전파환경 연구실)
Lee, Changhyeong (인천대학교 정보통신공학과 전파공학 및 전파환경 연구실)
Park, Heejun (인천대학교 정보통신공학과 전파공학 및 전파환경 연구실)
Lee, Jihye (인천대학교 정보통신공학과 전파공학 및 전파환경 연구실)
Kahng, Sungtek (인천대학교 정보통신공학과)
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Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications / v.12, no.1, 2017 , pp. 94-100 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we suggest a design method of a metamaterial-based low-profile antenna working at 425 MHz for LEO/Cube satellites. Satellites play an important role in linking th remote nodes in a wireless communication network and covering wide areas of the globe. Especially, an increasing number of universities or individuals aspire having their own satellites and build low-budget structures such as cube satellites in LEO and the ways to reduce the sizes of their satellites. Since the antenna occupies a major portion of the satellite surface, the antenna should be miniaturized for lighter weight. The proposed metamaterial low-profile antenna, unlike the conventional patch antenna, produces such a zeroth-order resonance to create an omnidirectional radiation pattern. Also, it is connected to a UHF waveguide bandpass filter as the feeding system to examine the possible change in the situation that the antenna is combined with the system. The performances of the monopole and proposed metamaterial antennas are compared to one another.
Keywords
Metamaterial; LEO; Cube Satellites; CRLH; ZOR; BPF;
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