Abstract
A small-size broadband circularly polarized U-slot patch antenna with dual-feed is proposed. By introducing an additional feeding probe near the vertical slot of the conventional singly fed square U-slot patch antenna printed on a high-permittivity substrate, two series resonances in close proximity are excited. The two resonant frequencies are found to be independent of the orientation of U-slot with respect to the patch, and broadband circular polarization is achieved by introducing a nonquadrature phase difference between two feeding ports. Experimental results show that the overlapped bandwidth of VSWR ≤ 1.5 and AR ≤ 3 dB is over 20% with a small overall size of 0.33λ0 × 0.33λ0 × 0.068λ0, where λ0 is the free-space wavelength at the center frequency within the operating band.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 6994273 |
| Pages (from-to) | 898-901 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters |
| Volume | 14 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Broadband
- U-slot patch patch antenna
- circular polarization
- small size