scholarly journals An Artificial Magnetic Conductor-Based Wideband Circularly Polarized Antenna with Low-Profile and Enhanced Gain

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (17) ◽  
pp. 2121
Author(s):  
Lina Qiu ◽  
Gaobiao Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Impedance Matching ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Center Frequency ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Orthogonal Polarization ◽  
Magnetic Conductor ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Artificial Magnetic Conductor ◽  
Low Profile ◽  
Simulation And Experiment

A broadband circularly polarized (CP) antenna with enhanced gain and low profile is proposed. Two identical dipoles with full wavelength are placed orthogonally to generate radiation waves with equal amplitude and orthogonal polarization. The arms of the dipoles are designed as stepped patches to enlarge the impedance matching bandwidth and axial ratio (AR) bandwidth. Crossed-dipoles with full wavelength are utilized as the main radiators to provide a wide operating bandwidth and enhanced gain, and an artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) structure is introduced as the reflector to reduce the profile of the whole antenna. Due to the introduction of the AMC structure, the antenna profile is reduced from 12.8 to 6.9 mm, that is, reduced to 0.14λ0 (where λ0 denotes the wavelength corresponding to the center frequency of the passband, 4.0–8.5 GHz). A simulation and experiment were carried out to verify the performance of the proposed antenna. Experimental results showed that the antenna realized an impedance bandwidth of 74%, an AR bandwidth of 67.7%, a peak gain of 12.1 dBic, and an average gain of 10.69 dBic.

scholarly journals Compact Broadband Circularly Polarized CPW-Fed Antenna with Characteristic Mode Analysis

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Wei Xu ◽  
Jingchang Nan ◽  
Mingming Gao
Keyword(s):  
Coplanar Waveguide ◽  
Impedance Matching ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Mode Analysis ◽  
Center Frequency ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Characteristic Mode ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Low Profile ◽  
Compact Size

A compact circularly polarized (CP) antenna is proposed for low-profile and wideband operation based on characteristic mode analysis (CMA). A ring patch with a gap and two arc-shaped metallic stubs as the radiator is analyzed and optimized by CMA to figure out the orthogonal modes and operating frequency band for potential good axial ratio (AR) performance. The studies of these CP modes provide a physical insight into the property of broadband circular polarization. Such an in-depth understanding paves the way for the proposal of novel CP antenna with separation between the design of radiator and feeding network. A 50-Ω coplanar waveguide (CPW) is introduced and placed appropriately to excite the desired modes based on the information from CMA, which employs two asymmetric ground planes to improve the performance in terms of AR and impedance matching. The antenna with a compact size of 0.71λ0 × 0.76λ0 × 0.038λ0 (λ0 is the free-space wavelength at the center frequency of the 3-dB AR bandwidth) is fabricated and measured for validation. The realized gain varies from 1.6 to 3.1 dBic over the operating bandwidth characterized by the measured 10-dB impedance bandwidth of 83.8% (3.98–9.72 GHz) and 3-dB AR bandwidth of 70.3% (4.59–9.57 GHz), respectively.

Wideband and low axial ratio circularly polarized antenna using AMC-based structure polarization rotation reflective surface

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1058-1064 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Chen ◽  
Hou Zhang ◽  
Lu-Chun Yang ◽  
Xiao-Fei Zhang ◽  
Yi-Chao Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Monopole Antenna ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Polarization Rotation ◽  
Magnetic Conductor ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Artificial Magnetic Conductor ◽  
Reflective Surface ◽  
Measured Impedance ◽  
Peak Gain

AbstractThis paper investigates a wideband and low axial ratio circularly polarized (CP) antenna, which is composed of a monopole on a novel polarization rotating reflective surface (PRRS) based on a corner-truncated artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) structure. By adjusting the dimensions of truncated corner properly, the PRRS has two polarization rotation (PR) frequency points. Then, a large PR band of 18% (5.55–6.65 GHz) can be achieved with two adjacent PR frequency points coming together. The profile of the newly PRRS is only0.04λ0. With corner-truncated AMC-based PRRS loading, a measured impedance bandwidth of 1.8 GHz (5.4–7.2 GHz) and the 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth of 1 GHz (5.55–6.65 GHz) could be obtained by the monopole antenna and validated by measurements. The values of AR were well below 1 dB at most of the CP region, which show a perfect CP performance. Moreover, the proposed antenna has exhibited a large axial ratio beamwidth in both the xoz- and yoz-planes and a peak gain of 6.1 dBic within the operational bandwidth.

A Broadband Circularly Polarized Cross-slotted Patch Antenna with Horizontal Meandered Strip (HMS)

Frequenz ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 191-199
Author(s):  
M. K. Verma ◽  
Binod K. Kanaujia ◽  
J. P. Saini ◽  
Padam S. Saini
Keyword(s):  
Circular Polarization ◽  
Patch Antenna ◽  
Impedance Matching ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Radiation Patterns ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Feeding Technique

AbstractA broadband circularly polarized slotted square patch antenna with horizontal meandered strip (HMS) is presented and studied. The HMS feeding technique provides the good impedance matching and broadside symmetrical radiation patterns. A set of cross asymmetrical slots are etched on the radiating patch to realize the circular polarization. An electrically small stub is added on the edge of the antenna for further improvement in performance. Measured 10-dB impedance bandwidth (IBW) and 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW) of the proposed antenna are 32.31 % (3.14–4.35 GHz) and 20.91 % (3.34–4.12 GHz), respectively. The gain of the antenna is varied from 3.5 to 4.86dBi within 3-dB ARBW. Measured results matched well with the simulated results.

Bilayer split-ring chiral metamaterial based reconfigurable antenna for polarization conversion

Frequenz ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Preet Kaur ◽  
Pravin R. Prajapati
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Center Frequency ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Split Ring ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Rectangular Patch ◽  
Mode 2 ◽  
Chiral Metamaterial

Abstract A bilayer split-ring chiral metamaterial converts the linearly polarized wave, into a nearly perfect left or right-handed circularly polarized wave. The proposed antenna is intended to operate at center frequency of 5.80 GHz with switchable polarization capability. The polarization re-configurability is achieved by electronically switching of two PIN-diode pairs, which are embedded into bilayer split-ring Chiral Metamaterial. The optimized length of rectangular patch is 16 mm and width is 12.1 mm. Two types of radiation characteristics offered by the proposed antenna; left hand circularly polarized in mode 1 and right hand circularly polarized in mode 2. Measured results show that its impedance bandwidth is 155 MHz from 5.70 to 5.855 GHz for both mode 1 and mode 2. The measured axial-ratio bandwidth is 100 MHz from 5.75 to 5.85 GHz for mode 1 and 110 MHz from 5.73 to 5.84 GHz for mode 2. Antenna has LHCP gain of 2.52 dBi and RHCP gain of −23 dBi in mode 1. RHCP gain of 2 dBi and polarization purity of about −20 dBi is obtained in mode 2. The proposed antenna has simple structure, low cost and it has potential application in field of wireless communication (i.e., WiMax, WLAN etc.).

scholarly journals CPW-fed circularly-polarized antenna array with high front-to-back ratio and low-profile

Open Physics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 651-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yilin Liu ◽  
Kama Huang
Keyword(s):  
Antenna Array ◽  
Coplanar Waveguide ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Antenna Design ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Feeding Method ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Low Profile ◽  
Novel Design

Abstract A novel design of a coplanar waveguide (CPW) feed antenna array with circular polarization (CP) and a high front-to-back ratio is described. The proposed CP array is achieved by using a compact CPW–slotline transition network etched in the ground plane. The measured results show that this kind of feeding method can improve the impedance bandwidth, as well as the axial ratio bandwidth of the CP antenna array and provide adequate gain. The proposed array can achieve a 6.08% impedance bandwidth and a 4.10% CP bandwidth. Details of the antenna design and experimental results are presented and discussed.

Development and Miniaturized of Circularly Polarization Diversity at Cavity Backed SIW Antenna for X-Band Application

Frequenz ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 317-320
Author(s):  
Saeid Karamzadeh ◽  
Vahid Rafiei ◽  
Hasan Saygin
Keyword(s):  
Schottky Diodes ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Polarization Diversity ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Low Profile ◽  
X Band ◽  
Coaxial Feed ◽  
Good Agreement

Abstract In this work circularly polarization diversity has been achieved by utilizing two Schottky diodes on low profile cavity-backed substrate integrated waveguide (CBSIW). In comparison with other studies in the literature, the size of antenna has been reduced to 0.54λg × 0.76λg by helping a 50-Ohm coaxial feed line. The impedance bandwidth, axial ratio bandwidth and antenna gain are improved to 10.02 %, 5.2 % and 7.68dBi, respectively. In addition, the proposed antenna can generate either a left-hand circularly polarized (LHCP) or a right-hand circularly polarized (RHCP) radiation. The developed antenna was fabricated and tested and the achieved results were in good agreement with the simulated one.

scholarly journals A Low-Profile High-Gain and Wideband Log-Periodic Meandered Dipole Array Antenna with a Cascaded Multi-Section Artificial Magnetic Conductor Structure

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (20) ◽  
pp. 4404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Son Trinh-Van ◽  
Oh Heon Kwon ◽  
Euntae Jung ◽  
Jinwoo Park ◽  
Byunggil Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Gain ◽  
Operating Frequency ◽  
Main Beam ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Beam Direction ◽  
Magnetic Conductor ◽  
Artificial Magnetic Conductor ◽  
Low Profile ◽  
Operating Bandwidth ◽  
Meander Line

This paper presents a low-profile log-periodic meandered dipole array (LPMDA) antenna with wideband and high gain characteristics. The antenna consists of 14 dipole elements. For compactness, a meander line structure is applied to each dipole element to reduce its physical length. As a result, a compact and wideband LPMDA antenna is realized, exhibiting a wide impedance bandwidth of 1.04–5.22 GHz (ratio bandwidth of 5.02:1) for | S 11| < −10 dB. To enhance the antenna gain performance while maintaining the wideband behavior, the LPMDA antenna is integrated with a new design of an artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) structure. The designed AMC is realized by combining three AMC structures of different sizes to form a cascaded multi-section AMC structure, of which its overall operating bandwidth can continuously cover the entire impedance bandwidth of the LPMDA antenna. The proposed AMC-backed LPMDA antenna is experimentally verified and its measured −10 dB reflection bandwidth is found to be in the range of 0.84–5.15 GHz (6.13:1). At the main beam direction within the operating frequency bandwidth, the gain of the proposed AMC-backed LPMDA antenna ranges from 7.15–11.43 dBi, which is approximately 4 dBi higher than that of an LPMDA antenna without an AMC. Moreover, the proposed antenna has a low profile of only 0.138 λ L. ( λ L is the free-space wavelength at the lowest operating frequency).

A compact polarization reconfigurable stacked microstrip antenna for WiMAX application

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Murari Shaw ◽  
Niranjan Mandal ◽  
Malay Gangopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Microstrip Antenna ◽  
Impedance Matching ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Dual Band ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Rectangular Slot ◽  
Substrate Layer ◽  
Linearly Polarized ◽  
Coaxial Probe

Abstract In this paper, a stacked microstrip patch antenna with polarization reconfigurable property has been proposed for worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) application. The proposed antenna has two substrate layers: upper and lower layers with two radiating patches connected with the coaxial probe. Without the upper layer the lower square-shaped substrate layer having regular hexagonal radiating patch with probe fed acts as a linear polarized antenna with impedance bandwidth for (S11 ≤ −10 dB) is 370 MHz 10.56% (3.32–3.69 GHz) cover WiMAX (3.4–3.69 GHz) application band. The hexagonal radiating patch is perturbed with an optimum rectangular slot to enhance the impedance bandwidth of the antenna. The lower substrate layer having hexagonal patch with the same probe position is stacked with the upper square-shaped substrate layer with same sized square patch and the upper patch soldered with the coaxial probe. The overall stacked antenna generates a circularly polarized band when the opposite corner of the top square radiating patch of the upper layer is truncated with optimum size. In order to generate another circularly polarized band and to improve the input impedance matching of the stacked antenna, the top radiating patch is perturbed with two slots and a slit. The stacked circularly polarized antenna generates impedance bandwidth of 12.75% (3.23–3.67 GHz) for (S11 ≤ −10 dB) with two circularly polarized bands (3.34–3.37 GHz) and (3.66–3.70 GHz) as per (axial ratio ≤ 3 dB) for WiMAX application. Therefore, the proposed antenna can be used as linearly polarized or dual band circularly polarized according to requirement.

Dual circularly polarized multilayer MIMO antenna array with an enhanced SR-feeding network for C-band application

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1741-1748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdi Jalali ◽  
Mohammad Naser-Moghadasi ◽  
Ramezan Ali Sadeghzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Antenna Array ◽  
Tai Chi ◽  
Impedance Matching ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Antenna Element ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Mimo Antenna ◽  
Feed Network

Wide-band circularly polarized multi-input multi-output (MIMO) antenna array with a 2 × 4 feed network was proposed for C-band application. Different unique techniques were utilized in the proposed array to enhance the antenna characteristics, such as gain, 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW), impedance tuning, and ruinous mutual coupling effects. A miniaturized dual-feed Tai chi-shaped antenna element with a pair of feeding points and a pair of eyebrow-shaped strips was presented for enhancing circular polarization (CP) purity and impedance matching. For a better improvement of CP features, a 2*4 MIMO sequentially rotated (MIMO-SR) feed network was used to achieve broader 3 dB ARBW. Besides, the MIMO feature of the feed network could control the left- and right-handed CP, respectively. Ultimately, specific forms of slot and slit structures were applied onto the top layer of MIMO feed network that provided a high isolation between the radiating elements and array network. Furthermore, the diversity gain (DG) was studied. The extracted measured results illustrated an impedance bandwidth of 3.5–8.2 GHz at port 1 and 3.5–8.3 GHz at port 2 for VWSR < 2 and 3 dB ARBW of 4.6–7.6 GHz at port 1 and 4.6–7.5 GHz at port 2. The peak gain of 9.9 dBi was at 6 GHz.

Analysis and Design of a Multi Octave Circularly Polarized Monopole Antenna for UWB, X and Ku-Band Applications

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.4) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Saritha Vanka ◽  
Tanmayi Seedrala ◽  
Jhansi Rani Areti
Keyword(s):  
Return Loss ◽  
Impedance Matching ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Frequency Region ◽  
Monopole Antenna ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Good Correspondence ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Ku Band

This work presents a circularly polarized, CPW-Fed multi band operating monopole antenna. The monopole antenna consists of three parasitic elements, along with a stub at ground for impedance matching. The parasitic elements so far accumulated have shown their excellence in increasing the impedance bandwidth over the 6-18GHz band. The antenna was carved on FR-4 epoxy substrate which result a copper clad laminated structure. The CPW-Fed monopole antenna exhibits excellent circular polarization levels in the frequency region 6-18GHz. The simulation resulted a Return loss of less than -10dB, with good axial ratio less than -3dB over entire band of interest. The simulation was carried out through HFSS microwave studio. The antenna measured values are in good correspondence to the simulated values. 

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