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Sandwiched Metasurface Antenna for Small Spacecrafts in IoT Infrastructure

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In this study, low-profile probe-excited crossed antenna with sandwiched metasurface is proposed for very small and ultra-small spacecrafts at X-band. The designed metasurface antenna is lightweight, low cost, and occupies physical size suitable for very small/ultra-small spacecrafts. The main targets of this study are the use of an optimized sandwiched metasurface for increasing return loss and peak gain of proposed antenna at X-band. Moreover, the sandwiched metasurface is used for minimizing levels of generated back lobes and so interferences with electronic components inside the spacecraft box. The constructed sandwiched metasurface antenna, therefore, achieves a bandwidth of about 350 MHz and increases the antenna total gain by about 1.10 dBi at X-band despite its very small size. These results are in general very suitable for very small and ultra-small spacecrafts communications.

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The authors would like to thank Prof. Gurjot Singh, Prof. Alexander Kogut, and Prof. Yadgar Ibrahim Abdulkarim for their valuable support in preparing this research work.

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  1. Faculty of Sciences of Rabat, Mohammed Five University of Rabat (UM5R), Agdal, Rabat, Morocco

    Boutaina Benhmimou, Rachid Ahl Laamara & Mohamed El Bakkali

  2. Department of Smart Device Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea

    Niamat Hussain

  3. ECE, LKCE, I.K.G. Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, India

    Nancy Gupta

  4. School of Electronics & Electrical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India

    Sandeep Kumar Arora

  5. Center for Research on Microgrids (CROM), Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg East, Denmark

    Josep M. Guerrero

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Benhmimou, B. et al. (2023). Sandwiched Metasurface Antenna for Small Spacecrafts in IoT Infrastructure. In: Sharma, R., Jeon, G., Zhang, Y. (eds) Data Analytics for Internet of Things Infrastructure. Internet of Things. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33808-3_7

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