A Wideband Circularly Polarized CPW-Fed Printed Monopole X-Band Antenna for CubeSat Applications

Mohamed El Hammoumi; Faisel Tubbal; Najiba El Amrani El Idrissi; Panagiotis Ioannis Theoharis; Suhila Abulgasem; Raad Raad

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3327923

IEEE Access (Jan 2023)

A Wideband Circularly Polarized CPW-Fed Printed Monopole X-Band Antenna for CubeSat Applications

Mohamed El Hammoumi,
Faisel Tubbal,
Najiba El Amrani El Idrissi,
Panagiotis Ioannis Theoharis,
Suhila Abulgasem,
Raad Raad

Affiliations

Mohamed El Hammoumi: ORCiD; Faculty of Sciences and Technologies, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco
Faisel Tubbal: ORCiD; School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Najiba El Amrani El Idrissi: ORCiD; Faculty of Sciences and Technologies, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco
Panagiotis Ioannis Theoharis: School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Suhila Abulgasem: School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Raad Raad: ORCiD; School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3327923
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11
pp. 121077 – 121086

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This paper presents a novel wideband circularly polarized CPW-fed printed monopole antenna for CubeSat applications. An AMC reflector with $5\times 5$ -unit cells is used to increase antenna gain. The overall size of the antenna is $0.48\lambda _{0} \times 0.48\lambda _{0} \times 0.042\lambda _{0}$ at the operating frequency of 8-GHz. The proposed printed monopole antenna provides a wide impedance bandwidth and a wide 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth. When comparing our proposed antenna to all designs, it is evident that the proposed printed monopole antenna offers several advantages. Firstly, it exhibits higher gain and a wider 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW) while maintaining a smaller physical size. More specifically, the measured results show a wide -10 dB impedance bandwidth of 97.5% (6.1–13.9 GHz), and a wide measured 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth of 98.75% (5.1–13 GHz) and total measured gain of 7.3-dBi at 8 GHz.

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ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
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