Antennas conformal to a Cubesat surface have many advantages compared to deployed antennas. This study presents two types of conformal antennas that do not compete for the expensive surface real estate with solar cell. The first type of antenna is optically transparent antennas integrated directly on top of commercial solar cells. The second solution is slot antennas that can be placed around s...

A printed Bow-Tie slot antenna with loaded stub is proposed and the effects of changing the dimensions of the slot area, the stub and load sizes are considered in this paper. These parameters have a considerable effect on the antenna characteristics as well as its performance. An in-depth parametric study of these dimensions is presented. This paper proposes the necessary conditions for initial...

This paper shows the comparative analysis of a cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna (CDRA) fed by nonresonant microstrip patch and a proximity-fed planar annular slot (PPAS) antenna. The antenna array having an antenna element for higher directive gain at the center frequency 9.04 GHz. The band-notch is detained by almost a half-wavelength split-ring parasitic element printed around the rad...

The single-feed design of compact microstrip patch antenna with a rectangular ring slot has been demonstrated and results are presented. Simply by inserting a narrow slot of proper length and width on the patch surface, a bandwidth of 330 MHz (9.04 %) with a gain of 2.93 dB is achieved. Results also indicate that, at fixed operating frequency, the proposed design has good omni-directional radia...

The design of a novel CPW-fed printed slot-loop antenna with narrowband omnidirectional attributes is proposed. The antenna geometry is selected to reduce slot coupling, thus achieving both a narrow bandwidth and an omnidirectional radiation pattern simultaneously. A gain of 2.1 dBi is accomplished with high radiation efficiency. Very narrow fractional impedance bandwidths as low as 2.9% are re...

A novel type of circularly polarized broadband antenna consisting of a modified circular wideslot aperture and an L-shaped feed probe is introduced. The modified circular wide-slot is partially covered to generate circular polarization with broadband characteristics in the axial ratio. Variations in both the axial ratio and the S11 characteristics of the device are investigated and radiation pa...

width of 77 percent for a 2:1 VSWR. However, the impedance bandwidth of this antenna design is still not enough to cover most wireless applications. It is important to enhance the impedance bandwidth of microstrip-fed wideslot antennas. In this article, a novel design of a microstrip-fed, printed rectangular slot antenna, with a small trapezoidal slot tuning for wireless applications, is propos...

The plate-laminated waveguide slot array antenna is a high-efficiency and wide-band antenna in the millimeterwave band. However, in the conventional corporate-feed circuit, the number of radiating elements is limited to be a power of two by using a cascade of T-junctions. In this paper, we propose the corporate-feed with a cross junction and an asymmetric Tjunction for 12×16 elements. The bandw...

Maintaining mutual coupling suppressing structure as simple as possible is becoming attractive in the electromagnetic and antenna community. A novel parasitic patch structure that can reduce mutual coupling between cavity-backed slot antenna elements is proposed and studied. The structure consists of only a simple rectangular patch inserted between the antenna elements, and it is therefore low ...

This paper presents a comparative review study on ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna technology for Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) applications. The proposed antenna designs for UWB ground penetrating radar include a bow-tie antennas, Vivaldi antennas, horn antennas, planar antennas, tapered slot antennas, dipole antennas, and spiral antennas. Furthermore a comprehensive study in terms of operating f...