Abstract
Horn Antenna has many applications such as communication, radar, and standard reference antenna for measurement. In this research, we designed a pyramidal horn for a Circularly Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar (CP-SAR) sensor onboard a microsatellite. We utilized a 3D printer with Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) technology for fast, low-cost, and low-weight production. Polylactide (PLA) material was used to construct 3D structures, and a copper conductive coating was painted on its surface. Gaussian distribution function was employed to create a septum polarizer profile. NPC-220 A with 1.6 thickness and 2.17 dielectric constant was used to make a microstrip monopole antenna and stripline feeding to feed the pyramidal horn to generate TE01 mode at one side of the waveguide. The design, parametric studies, and measurements are discussed in this paper. The designed antenna can achieve wide bandwidth 28% of 3 dB axial ratio, and more than 22% of s11 ≤ −10 dB in working frequency that is acceptable for CP-SAR requirement on the microsatellite.
Highlights
Horn antenna is important for many applications such as communication, radar, laboratory’s standard reference antenna
The designed antenna can achieve wide bandwidth 28% of 3 dB axial ratio, and more than 22% of s11 ≤ −10 dB in working frequency that is acceptable for Circularly Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar (CP-SAR) requirement on the microsatellite
This research proposed the pyramidal horn for Circularly Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar (CP-SAR) onboard a microsatellite
Summary
Horn antenna is important for many applications such as communication, radar, laboratory’s standard reference antenna. Some researchers designed stepped septum inside square waveguide as in [2] [3] [4] to achieve wide bandwidth axial ratio, while a different function was used to design septum polarizer to modify stepped septum transition with smooth lines such as Legendre function and Sigmoid function [5] [6]. They still have many parameters, and the lines are not easy to fabricate using the FDM 3D printer. The design, simulation, parametric study, and measurement are described in this paper
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