A bottom fed deployable conical log spiral antenna design for cubesat

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 41-47

  Ernest, Anthony J ^a   Tawk, Youssef ^b,c   Costantine, Joseph ^b,d   Christodoulou, Christos G ^b  

^a MSC01 1070   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^d AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Balun; CubeSat; deployable antenna; Helical antenna

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA GROUNDS; DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; FEEDING; HELICAL ANTENNAS; LOG PERIODIC ANTENNAS; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFTERS; SPIRAL ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA DEPLOYMENTS; BALUN; CUBESAT; DEPLOYABLE ANTENNA; FEEDING NETWORKS; LOG SPIRAL ANTENNAS; MEASUREMENT AND SIMULATION; QUARTER-WAVELENGTH;

ANTENNA FEEDERS;

EID: 84920855687     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2014.2367539     Document Type: Article

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