Design and Testing of a Low-Profile Pressure-Tolerant L-band Antenna

Design and testing of an epoxy-encapsulated planar L-band antenna for use in a small autonomous underwater vehicle is reported. Return loss testing with a reference radiative element is used to characterize two candidate polymer encapsulation materials, acrylic and epoxy. Planar radiative elements a...

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Main Authors: Gomez-Ibanez, Daniel, Elkolali, Moustafa, Al-Tawil, Ahmed, Alcocer, Alex
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
antenna
autonomous underwater vehicle
Autonomous underwater vehicles
drag
Encapsulation
epoxy
Finite element analysis
glider
Iterative methods
Network analyzers
Planar arrays
polymer encapsulation
Polymers
pressure tolerant electronics
return loss
vector network analyzer
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Summary:Design and testing of an epoxy-encapsulated planar L-band antenna for use in a small autonomous underwater vehicle is reported. Return loss testing with a reference radiative element is used to characterize two candidate polymer encapsulation materials, acrylic and epoxy. Planar radiative elements are iteratively scaled for accurate tuning after encapsulation.
ISSN:2377-6536
DOI:10.1109/AUV53081.2022.9965937