Circularly polarised solar antenna for airborne communication nodes

Author

O´Conchubhair, O. ; Narbudowicz, A. ; McEvoy, P. ; Ammann, M.J.

Author_Institution

Antenna & High Freq. Res. Centre, Dublin Inst. of Technol., Dublin, Ireland

Volume

51

Issue

9

fYear

2015

fDate

4 30 2015

Firstpage

667

Lastpage

669

Abstract

A circularly polarised solar cell antenna consisting of four sequentially rotated printed inverted-F antennas is proposed. Four multicrystalline silicon solar cells act as the ground plane and the antenna is suitable for low-power airborne communication nodes and wireless sensor networks. The antenna design was developed to allow 100% insolation of the cells when directly facing a light source. The low-profile antenna minimises shadowing of the solar cell for oblique angle insolation.

Keywords

aircraft communication; antenna radiation patterns; circular waveguides; electromagnetic wave polarisation; elemental semiconductors; light sources; microstrip antennas; planar inverted-F antennas; silicon; solar cells; wireless sensor networks; Si; circularly polarised solar cell antenna; ground plane; light source; low-power airborne communication nodes; multicrystalline silicon solar cell insolation; oblique angle insolation; sequentially rotated printed inverted-F antennas; solar cell shadow minimisation; wireless sensor network;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el.2015.0201

Filename

7095700