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Within our Electromagnetics business line, we design, develop, and test antennas and perform electromagnetic (EM) simulations on antennas and other structures. In particular, we design high-performance antennas according to customer specifications. Some of our reference projects are presented below.
As part of the “Inkjet-Printed Circuit Board Technology for User Terminal Antennas” R&D project, Harp Technologies designed a dual-band L-band antenna for receiving and transmitting satellite data (voice, Internet, and multimedia data). The project was funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the project partners were the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Premix Ltd. The antenna was realised by VTT using inkjet printing. The operational frequency bands of the antenna are 1.542 GHz and 1.664 GHz for downlink and uplink, respectively, with a bandwidth of 34 MHz for both. The antenna as designed consists of two substrate layers separated by an air gap with the size of 24 cm x 24 cm x 1.7 cm.
As part of the development of a radar altimeter for a planetary lander, Harp Technologies has developed a linearly polarised planar antenna for the Ku-band (13.3 GHz). The antenna consists of an 8×8 element antenna array on a substrate with an aluminium backplane. The size of the antenna is 148 x 148 x 4 mm³, the weight is 170 g, and the gain is 22 dB. An additional radome was also developed to be mounted on top of the substrate. The project was funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the overall development of the altimeter was under the leadership of the company EFACEC Energia, Máquinas e Equipamentos Eléctricos.
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