Fractal antenna application to satellite communications

Issue title: Proceedings of the tenth International Symposium on Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics ISEM-Tokyo

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Verringer, Joseph^a | Nafalski, Andrew^{a; *}

Affiliations: [a] University of South Australia, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Mawson Lakes 5095, South Australia

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Andrew Nafalski, Tel.: +61 8 8 302 3932; Fax: +61 8 8302 3384; E-mail: nafalski@unisa.edu.au

Abstract: Recent developments in antenna design have led to fractal arrays -- recursively generated objects where successive dimensions are fractional. These arrays can provide frequency independent, multi-band characteristics that can be used to electromagnetically design an antenna that exhibits good properties over two widely separated frequencies for the purpose of satellite communications. The fractional design results are compared in the paper to simulation results in order to analyse the performance at the required frequencies.

DOI: 10.3233/JAE-2002-320

Journal: International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, vol. 13, no. 1-4, pp. 271-276, 2002