Design, Fabrication and Measurements of an X-Band Cross-Patch Antenna with Metasurface for Advanced LEO CubeSat Missions
| Authors | B. Benhmimou1 , F. Omari1 , N. Gupta2 , K. El Khadiri3 , A. Kogut4, R.A. Laamara1 , I. Kuzmichev4, M. El Bakkali1,3 |
| Affiliations |
1LPHE-MS, Faculty of Sciences, University Mohammed V in Rabat (UM5), Rabat, Morocco 2ECE Department, Lyallpur Khalsa College Technical Campus, Jalandhar, Punjab, India 3Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences El Jadida, University Chouaib Doukkali of El Jadida, Morocco 4O.Ya. Usikov Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics of NAS of Ukraine, Kharkov 61085, Ukraine |
| Е-mail | boutaina.benhmimou@um5.ac.ma |
| Issue | Volume 17, Year 2025, Number 3 |
| Dates | Received 25 March 2025; revised manuscript received 20 June 2025; published online 27 June 2025 |
| Citation | B. Benhmimou, F. Omari, et al., J. Nano- Electron. Phys. 17 No 3, 03007 (2025) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21272/jnep.17(3).03007 |
| PACS Number(s) | 84.40.Ba |
| Keywords | 1U CubeSat (2) , Antenna measurements, Cross-patch antennas, CubeSat lifetime, MTM (2) , Peak gain. |
| Annotation |
In this research, we build, miniaturize, and optimize a smart metasurface antenna to meet the requirements of the smallest cube satellite unit with almost negligible air drag altitude. One of the main objectives of this study is to extend the AeroCube lifetime by adopting far orbits and obtaining significant HPBW angles in order to increase the data reception period throughout the day while using a very efficient energy system. To accomplish all of this, a new antenna shape was adopted, consisting of planar dipole antennas perpendicular to each other, to minimize size to the greatest extent possible while maintaining good operating characteristics in accordance with all previous objectives, without the need for any antenna deployment process after the satellite reaches orbit. Furthermore, a completely new unit cell shape was adopted and optimized to create the metasurface layer, allowing for further enhancement of the final X-band antenna characteristics and, as a result, the overall efficiency of the completed cube satellite. The designed metasurfaced antenna was well manufactured and validated in the anechoic chamber and using vector network analyzer, yielding satisfactory measured results in X-band for CubeSat communication. It is lightweight and exhibit unidirectional radiation pattern with wide 3 dBi gain bandwidth (3 dBi GBW of about 1.0 GHz) and high gain of about 10.0 dBi at 8.4 GHz. The overall results with occupied size and volume are satisfactory for unlimited lifetime CubeSat missions at X-band using all CubeSat structures. |
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