Ku-Band Suspended Meshed Patch Antenna Integrated with Solar Cells for Remote Area Applications

Q3 Materials Science

Progress in Electromagnetics Research C Pub Date : 2018-04-28 DOI:10.2528/PIERC18020608

F. Nashad, S. Foti, David Smith, M. Elsdon, O. Yurduseven

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Abstract

A new structure design of a dual-band suspended microstrip meshed patch antenna integrated with a polycrystalline silicon solar cell for Ku-band satellite applications is proposed and presented. This antenna element is a basic building block for a Ku-band meshed array antenna used for two-way satellite internet and TV applications at rural and remote locations. The antenna covers the operating frequency range from 11.7GHz to 12.22 GHz downlink band and from 14.0GHz to 14.5GHz uplink band allocated by the ITU to the Regions 1 and 2. While achieving 500MHz bandwidth across each band, fully covering the Ku-band uplink and downlink frequency bands, the antenna offers a single element gain of 6.05 dBi in the downlink band and 7.61 dBi in the uplink band. The antenna has been fabricated and measured, and good agreement is achieved between the experimental and simulated results. In addition, a good compromise between RF performance and optical transparency is obtained. The overall visible light transmission is found to be approximately 87%. A compact low-profile antenna element is also achieved.

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Ku波段与太阳能电池集成的悬挂网格贴片天线在偏远地区的应用

提出了一种用于ku波段卫星的多晶硅太阳能电池集成双频悬浮微带网状贴片天线的新结构设计。这种天线元件是ku波段网状阵列天线的基本构件，用于农村和偏远地区的双向卫星互联网和电视应用。该天线的工作频率范围为国际电联分配给区域1和区域2的下行频段11.7GHz至12.22 GHz，上行频段14.0GHz至14.5GHz。在每个频段实现500MHz带宽的同时，完全覆盖ku波段上行和下行频段，该天线在下行频段提供6.05 dBi的单元件增益，在上行频段提供7.61 dBi的单元件增益。对天线进行了制作和测量，实验结果与仿真结果吻合较好。此外，在射频性能和光学透明度之间取得了良好的折衷。总的可见光透射率约为87%。还实现了紧凑的低轮廓天线元件。

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Progress in Electromagnetics Research C Materials Science-Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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2.70

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113