A Broadband Slot Antenna With Unidirectional Circularly Polarized Radiation Patterns

作者:Xu, Rui*; Li, Jian-Ying; Wei, Kun; Yang, Guang-Wei
来源:IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 2017, 16: 317-320.
DOI:10.1109/LAWP.2016.2574808

摘要

A novel circular slot antenna is proposed in this letter to generate a broadband circular polarization (CP) wave. This antenna consists of a Gamma-shaped radiator and a circular ground with a cut of three ellipses. By adjusting the size and position of these ellipses, a CP wave can be realized. A chip resistor, which is used to receive the currents and decrease reflection, can significantly enhance the CP bandwidth. The study of the effect to antenna performance of different geometric parameters has been conducted. The results show that good performance of impedance bandwidth (S-11 < -10 dB) is approximately 106.1% (1.01 similar to 3.29 GHz), and 3-dB axial-ratio bandwidth is approximately 89.7% (1.26 similar to 3.31 GHz). Moreover, the antenna exhibits a stable average gain of about 6.0 dBic in the operating band, and the circularly polarized peak gain is about 7.6 dBic.