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Coaxial Pin-Fed Multiband Fractal Square Antenna for Satellite Application

Publication Type : Journal Article

Publisher : Electromagnetics Research C PIER-C

Source : Progress in Electromagnetics Research C (PIER-C), Electromagnetics Academy, United States, Vol. 138, 247-259, 2023, Impact factor 1.69

Url : https://www.jpier.org/issues/volume.html?paper=23062201

Campus : Chennai

School : School of Engineering

Department : Electronics and Communication

Year : 2023

Abstract : A coaxially pin-fed multiband fractal square antenna is proposed in this paper. The designed antenna resonates in five bands: 5 GHz, 10 GHz, 13.2 GHz, 16 GHz, and 20.5 GHz. This multibands are achieved by using a fractal square antenna. The fractal square is formed from an initial square patch and then optimized with increasing fractal iterations to resonate at these bands. The fractal property of the design also helps in the miniaturisation of the antenna. The proposed antenna has gain ranging from 4.9 dB to 9.7 dB and radiation efficiencies from 70% to 98%. The proposed antenna is simulated using the CST microwave studio. The antenna is then fabricated, and its performance parameters are measured. After finding a match between simulated and measured results, the same antenna and its array are tested in a MATLAB simulation environment for direction of arrival (DOA) and adaptive beam forming (AB) at all five bands. Using different DOA and AB algorithms, the performance of the antenna array is evaluated. The ability to accurately estimate the DOA of all signals delivered to the adaptive array antenna allows it to maximise its performance in terms of recovering the required transmitted signal and suppressing any interference signal. Then, the beam of the antenna is modified using the DOA algorithm to generate a beam in the desired direction and nulls in the unwanted direction for proposed satellite communications.

Cite this Research Publication : Coaxial Pin-Fed Multiband Fractal Square Antenna for Satellite Application, Progress in Electromagnetics Research C (PIER-C), Electromagnetics Academy, United States, Vol. 138, 247-259, 2023, Impact factor 1.69

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