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A stowable and deployable 4×4 bowtie array at L-band is presented. The 16 bowtie antennas are fabricated using standard FR-4. The bowtie array uses flexible copper-clad kapton with supporting narrow aluminum channels to replace the conventional rigid ground plane. A size reduction of about 85% is achieved when the antenna is stowed. The measured gain, excluding the losses of the feed network, is between 16 dBi and 19.5 dBi over the frequency band of interest from 1.2 GHz to 1.5 GHz.

Researcher/Author: Gong Chen, Fujiang Lin, and Koen Mouthaan

Published in:  IEEE

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https://doi.org/10.1109/USNC-URSI52151.2023.10238186