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Space Antennae Including Terahertz Antennae

Handbook of Antenna Technologies

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This chapter deals with the analysis of several kinds of space antennae with a special section devoted to THz antennae. In particular, horn antennae, either corrugated as spline profiles for data downlink and uplink communications and TT&C applications are developed. More innovative antenna designs based on the use of Electromagnetic BandGap (EBG) or Metamaterial structures (MTM) are included. These ones exhibit very promising properties to be used in applications such as TT&C or Navigation. Finally, due to the increasing interest in scientific missions operating at THz frequencies, a section including the last results of using MTM technologies for implementing antennae at THz bands for imaging space applications is presented.

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Gonzalo, R., Ederra, I., Iriarte, J.C., Teniente, J. (2015). Space Antennae Including Terahertz Antennae. In: Chen, Z. (eds) Handbook of Antenna Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-75-7_123-1

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