A Wideband Linear-to-Circular Polarizer based on Hexagonal FSS on PDMS Substrate for CubeSats

A novel flexible single-layered and single-sided linear to-circular polarizer is proposed in this work. The proposed polarizer is designed for a deployable format for application in a 3U Cube Satellites. It features a near-zero 3 dBAR, with a size of 0.22 λ0×0.27λ0×0.03λ0 and a 3dB AR fractional bandwidth of 34.39 %, starting from 1.95 GHz to 2.76 GHz. It performs with a conversion efficiency bandwidth covering 90% of 43.47 %, starting from 1.8 GHz to 2.8 GHz. This indicates the polarizer’s wideband CP performance, with a pure CP centered at 2.41 GHz.

Authors

Mirza Hidayath, Soh Ping Jack, Sheikh Rais Ahmad, Hossain Toufiq M., Yan Sen, Zhang Jiahao, Luo Fengyi

Publication type

A4 Article in conference proceedings

Place of publication

4th IEEE International Conference on Electronic Information and Communication Technology, ICEICT 2021

Published

Full citation

H. Mirza et al., "A Wideband Linear-to-Circular Polarizer based on Hexagonal FSS on PDMS Substrate for CubeSats," 2021 IEEE 4th International Conference on Electronic Information and Communication Technology (ICEICT), 2021, pp. 616-619, doi: 10.1109/ICEICT53123.2021.9531328

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEICT53123.2021.9531328

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http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2021110553960