A WIDEBAND TWIN-DIAMOND-SHAPED CIRCULARLY POLARIZED PATCH ANTENNA WITH GAP-COUPLED FEED

作者:Li, Xuehui*; Ren, Xueshi; Yin, Yingzeng; Chen, Lu; Wang, Zedong
来源:Progress in Electromagnetics Research-PIER, 2013, 139: 15-24.
DOI:10.2528/PIER13030301

摘要

A novel twin-diamond-shaped antenna is presented for wideband circularly polarized (CP) radiation. By introducing a twin-diamond-shaped patch and a gap-coupled feed structure, a left-handed circularly polarized (LHCP) antenna in bore-sight direction is obtained. The gap-coupled feed structure consists of a horizontal microstrip arm of approximately 0.285 lambda(0) at the centre frequency and two small diamonds, which greatly contributes to wideband characteristics. The experimental bandwidths of 10-dB return loss and 3-dB axial ratio (AR) for the antenna prototype are about 20% and 9.2%, respectively. The measured gain is more than 6.8 dBi over the entire bandwidth.