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This paper proposes a low-profile wideband circularly polarized (CP) antenna using solar cell patches as radiation elements and a sequentially rotated feeding network for CubeSat applications. To realize a wide axial ratio (AR) bandwidth with a compact size, a sequentially rotated feeding network was designed by modifying a quadrature hybrid coupler and a rat-race coupler that has a small change in phase difference even when the frequency changes. A wideband CP patch array antenna was designed by combining a C-shaped slot-coupled solar cell patch in conjunction with a novel feeding network. The overall size of the proposed CP CubeSat antenna is 100 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times 100\times7.2$ </tex-math></inline-formula> mm<sup>3</sup> (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.83\,\,\lambda _{\mathrm {o}} \times 0.83\,\,\lambda _{\mathrm {o}} \times 0.06\,\,\lambda _{\mathrm {o}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> at 2.5 GHz). Solar cells occupy 79&#x0025; of the antenna area, enabling efficient energy harvesting. The &#x2212;10 dB impedance bandwidth is 1.98&#x2013;3.0 GHz, which is a fractional bandwidth of approximately 41.0&#x0025;. The 3-dB AR and 3-dB gain bandwidths are 1.98&#x2013;3.0 GHz (41.0&#x0025;) and 1.82&#x2013;2.98 GHz (46.6&#x0025;), respectively. The proposed CP solar patch array antenna demonstrates a constant radiation pattern within the &#x2212;10 dB impedance bandwidth. The proposed CubeSat antenna is suitable for use in an Internet of Space Things (IoST) autonomous communication system.

Low-Profile Wideband Solar-Cell-Integrated Circularly Polarized CubeSat Antenna for the Internet of Space Things