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Abstract
A very thin microwave absorber which can be integrated into the outermost layer of thermal blankets is proposed as a means to electromagnetically decouple payload antennas from spacecraft platforms. The effectiveness of this concept is evaluated for a critical test case where a linearly polarized dipole antenna working at 10 GHz is placed at three different distances above the surface of 10 cm nanosat mock-up. This scenario is chosen as the dipole will radiate into both half spaces and any reflections from the vehicle on which it is mounted will significantly affect its behaviour. A resistively loaded Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) absorber is employed to suppress the energy contained in the antenna backlobes, and it is shown that the installed performance for all three geometries closely resembles the beam shape in of the antenna in isolation. Experimental results have been obtained for one arrangement to confirm that the directive gain is increased by 18 dB in the boresight direction. The FSS absorber is composed of an array of resistively loaded hexagonal patches which are patterned on a 1.12 mm (λ/25) thick foil backed Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) sheet to replicate the physical construction of commercially available space blankets.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2607 - 2611 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters |
Early online date | 04 Oct 2019 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Early online date - 04 Oct 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/LAWP.2019.2945399https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8859363
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Stealth Technologies for Satellites
Gonçalves Machado, G. (Advisor)
26 Feb 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Stealth technologies based on thin microwave FSS absorbers
Gonçalves Machado, G. (Author), Cahill, R. (Supervisor), Fusco, V. (Supervisor) & Conway, G. (Supervisor), Jul 2021Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
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Robert Cahill
- School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - Visiting Scholar
- Wireless Communication Systems
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