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  • Inventi:emw/21278/16
    Circularly Polarized Transparent Microstrip Patch Reflectarray Integrated with Solar Cell for\nSatellite Applications
    01-Jan-1970 Research 2017 : January - March
    S H Zainud-Deen, N A El-Shalaby, S M Gaber, H A Malhat

    Circularly polarized (CP) transparent microstrip reflectarray antenna is integrated with solar cell for small satellite applications at\n10GHz. The reflectarray unit cell consists of a perfect electric conductor (PEC) square patch printed on an optically transparent\nsubstrate with the PEC ground plane. A comparison between using transparent conducting polymers and using the PEC in unit-cell\nconstruction has been introduced.Thewaveguide simulator is used to calculate the required compensation phase of each unit cell in\nthe reflectarray.The radiation characteristics of 13 Ã?â?? 13 CP transparent reflectarray antenna are investigated. A circularly polarized\nhorn antenna is used to feed the reflectarray.The solar cell is incorporated with the transparent reflectarray on the same area.The\nsolar-cell integration with the reflectarray reduces the maximum gain by about 0.5 dB due to the increase in the magnitude of the\nreflection coefficient. The results are calculated using the finite integral technique (FIT).

    How to Cite this Article
    CC Compliant Citation: S. H. Zainud-Deen, N. A. El-Shalaby, S. M.\nGaber, and H. A. Malhat, â??Circularly Polarized Transparent\nMicrostrip Patch Reflectarray Integrated with Solar Cell for Satellite\nApplications,â? International Journal of Microwave Science and\nTechnology, vol. 2016, Article ID 6102530, 7 pages, 2016.\ndoi:10.1155/2016/6102530, https://creativecommons.org/\nlicenses/by/4.0/.
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