Chandrakanta Kumar

About

Chandrakanta Kumar (Senior Member, IEEE) received his M. Tech and PhD in Radio Physics and Electronics from the University of Calcutta, India, in the year 2001 and 2012 respectively. He has also completed Space Studies Program, from International Space University, Strasbourg, France, in 2013.
He joined Communication Systems Group of U R Rao Satellite Centre, Bangalore, India in 2001 as an engineer and headed its ‘Electomagnetics Section’. He primarily designs and develops the antenna systems for the Indian space programme and related ground stations like ‘Indian deep space network station’ IDSN-32, 11 m diameter satellite tracking antenna, transportable tracking terminals, etc. He has worked on the antenna systems of 20 spacecrafts, including Mars Orbiter Mission, Chandrayaan-1&2, Moon Impact Probe with operating in the frequency range between VHF to Ka- band. He served as Deputy Project Director (DPD) for RF Systems of Chandrayaan-2, Orbiter; project manager—antenna systems, for the Chandrayaan-1 and Moon Impact Probe, ASTROSAT and GSAT-12 missions. He has 135 publications in national and international journals and conferences, including 54 in IEEE journals to his credit. He has supervised two Masters’ and three PhD theses. His present research areas are low cross-pol printed antennas, defected ground structures (DGS), phased array antennas, lightweight antennas for spacecrafts.
Dr. Kumar is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), W.B. Academy of Sc.& Tech., and Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India and life member of Astronautical Society of India. He is a recipient of ‘Young Scientist Merit Award-2009’ from ISRO, ‘Prof. S. N. Mitra Memorial Award-2011’ and Hari Ramji Toshniwal Award-2018; both from IETE, India. He is also a member of the team that received ‘Team Excellence Award-2008’ of ISRO for his design of Chandrayaan-1 antenna systems. He also received 2nd Best paper award in InCAP 2019 at Ahmedabad; second and third best paper awards in iAIM-2017, ‘K U Limaye’ Memorial Best Paper Awards in ISM-2008 and IRSI 2009; all held in Bangalore.
He is an active volunteer of IEEE and at present is the Vice Chair (TA) of the Bangalore Section and Chair-Elect of its AP-MTT joint chapter. He was the TPC chair and publication chair of the inaugural edition of B-HTC 2020 and chaired the ‘Antenna Systems for Futuristic Application’ track of CONECCT-2020, and served as organizing chair of CONECCT 2021 and 2022 editions of IEEE Bangalore Section. He is also on the board of reviewers of journals like the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, etc.

Employment

• U R Rao Satellite Centre Scientist/Engineer
  2001 - Present

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Publications (84)

• Machine Learning-Assisted Microstrip Antenna Design Featuring Extraordinary Polarization Purity
  IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 2025 DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2024.3524249
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• A Way to Address Inherent Weakness in Conceiving the Ground Plane Geometry for a Microstrip Antenna
  IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation 2024 DOI: 10.1109/OJAP.2024.3366694
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• Sources of Cross-Polarized Radiation in Microstrip Patches: Multiparametric identification and insights for advanced engineering
  IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine 2023 DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2022.3143434
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• A Concept of Advanced Design Governed by Theoretically Predicted Current Distributions on the Ground Plane Beneath an Aperture-Fed Microstrip Antenna
  IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation 2023 DOI: 10.1109/OJAP.2023.3267299
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• A Technique to Realize Aperture Coupled Microstrip Patch as a Truly Low Cross-Polar Antenna by Mitigating the Major Issues Over its Skewed Radiation Planes
  IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation 2023 DOI: 10.1109/OJAP.2023.3295423
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• Radiating Mode Induced Cross-Polar Source in Microstrip Patch: Identification and Solution
  IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 2022 DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2022.3190724
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• Microstrip Patch With Grounded Spikes: A New Technique to Discriminate Orthogonal Mode for Reducing Cross-Polarized Radiations
  IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 2022 DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2021.3111158
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• Source of Cross-Polar Fields in a Triangular Patch: Insight and Experimental Proof
  IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 2021 DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2021.3114149
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• Higher Mode Discrimination in a Rectangular Patch: New Insight Leading to Improved Design With Consistently Low Cross-Polar Radiations
  IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 2021 DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2020.3016506
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• Mitigating Unwanted Mode in a Microstrip Patch by a Simpler Technique to Reduce Cross-Polarized Fields Over the Orthogonal Plane
  IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 2021 DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2021.3060064
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