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Design of a compact high gain printed octagonal array of spiral-based fractal antennas for DBS application

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2020

Kalyan Sundar Kola ,
Anirban Chatterjee Open the ORCID record for Anirban Chatterjee [Opens in a new window]  and
Deven Patanvariya
Kalyan Sundar Kola
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Goa, Farmagudi, Ponda, Goa403401, India
Anirban Chatterjee*
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Goa, Farmagudi, Ponda, Goa403401, India
Deven Patanvariya
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Goa, Farmagudi, Ponda, Goa403401, India
*
Author for correspondence: Anirban Chatterjee, E-mail: snanirban@gmail.com
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Abstract

This paper presents a compact octagonal array of microstrip patch antennas for direct broadcast satellite (DBS) (12.2–12.7 GHz) services. The proposed single element of this array is a new fractal antenna, having considerably high gain and can heavily suppress cross polarization along the main beam direction. The single element is derived from a 2D spiral geometry. The corporate feed network of the array is designed in such a manner to make the structure very compact. The fabricated single element resonates at 12.51 GHz and gives a gain and bandwidth of 9.32 dBi and 280 MHz, respectively. The array resonates at 12.46 GHz and gives gain of 17.67 dBi and a bandwidth of 506 MHz, which ensures a 100% coverage of the entire DBS service band. The measured cross polarization of single element and array along the direction of main beam are −45.50 and −43.35 dB, respectively. Both the single element as well as the array maintains a reasonably good radiation efficiency of 86.70 and 82.20%, respectively.

Keywords

Antenna arrayDBS service bandfractal antennaspiral geometryradiation efficiency
Type
Antenna Design, Modeling and Measurements
Information
International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies , Volume 12 , Special Issue 8: Special Issue EuMW 2019. Part II , October 2020 , pp. 769 - 781
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and the European Microwave Association 2020

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