Circularly polarized meshed patch antenna for cubesats and other small sattelites

A new antenna design that uses two orthogonal feeds to excite circular polarization in a meshed patch antenna is presented. The antenna is designed on a transparent borosilicate glass substrate to be suitable for integration with solar panels on a microsatellite. Simulated performance shows that for a center frequency of 2.4GHz, an impedance bandwidth and axial ratio of of 50MHz and 0.68dB, can be obtained, respectively.

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[2]  Shahin Sheikh.  Circularly Polarized Meshed Patch Antenna , 2016, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

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