Sustainable Broadband Antenna Organic Photovoltaics Integration with 100% Insolation

This study shows a novel and compact configuration produced by combining an organic solar cell (OSC) with a plus-shaped antenna designed for effective operation in the Ku band. This integrated structure offers an attractive solution for modern satellite communication systems, covering a broad frequency range of 10.6 to 13.7 GHz and providing an efficient 3.1 GHz bandwidth high realized gain of 8.6 dBi with 100% insolation. Building on earlier work that focused on individual performance characteristics, this work highlights its total performance benefits by combining Ku-wide bandwidth, high gain, and full-insolation operating into a single design. The OSC is comprised of aluminum, PH3D, ITO, and Glass materials to ensure an environmentally friendly design. This integration technique offers full solar cell insolation for optimal energy conversion and clearly improves important antenna features, such as a noticeable increase in realized gain by about 2.5 dB and a refined radiation pattern directly attributable to the solar cell. The final design, which offers both performance improvements and environmental concerns, therefore appears as a very practical and environmentally friendly candidate for potential deployments in Ku band satellite technologies.