An SU-8/Glass Meshed Patch Antenna for Integration with Solar Cells

In this paper, a wideband SU-8-based stacked meshed patch antenna is designed for integration with solar cells in CubeSats. The bottom meshed patch antenna is placed on glass substrate Corning 7070, and a thick layer of SU-8 negative photoresist serves as the upper patch substrate. The proposed antenna achieves a balanced compromise between the weight, robustness, transparency, and performance. The antenna bandwidth is 4.3%, from 2.376 GHz to 2.483 GHz, and the maximum gain in the entire frequency range is 5.3 dBi.