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-S...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.展开更多
文摘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.
