Wideband circularly polarized waveguide-fed antipodal exponential tapered slot antenna

Jiashan Liu, Hongda Lu*, Zihao Li, Zhipeng Liu, Zhiyong Dong, Changjiang Deng, Xin Lv, Yong Liu

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Abstract

A novel waveguide-fed antipodal exponential tapered slot antenna (AETSA) is investigated to achieve wideband circular polarization. The proposed AETSA is fed by double-ridge waveguide and loaded with antipodal exponential tapered slots. The wideband axial ratio (AR) performance is discussed in detail. It is noted that this AETSA has a right-hand circularly polarized AR lower than 3 dB in 94.5% bandwidth, from 12.4 to 34.6 GHz, illustrating AETSAs potential in a wideband application. The measured VSWR is lower than 2.1 in the operating band. Gain varies from 8.3 to 18.3 dBi. This AETSA is suitable for millimeter-wave and terahertz wideband circular polarization applications.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8790654
Pages (from-to)1912-1916
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Volume18
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2019

Keywords

  • Antipodal exponential tapered slot antenna (AETSA)
  • circularly polarized (CP)
  • wideband

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