Dual-frequency microstrip antenna with dual circular polarisation

A single-feed dual-frequency microstrip patch antenna that can produce dual circular polarisations (CP) is presented. The microstrip antenna has an annular-ring patch and is excited by an L-shaped microstrip line through the coupling of a ring slot in the ground plane. The occurrence of the dual CP is because the magnetic currents circulating along the ring slot at two specific frequencies have opposite flowing directions. Both simulated and measured results are provided to validate the CP performance of the proposed antenna     

Circularly-Polarized Wide Slot Antenna Loaded With a Parasitic Patch

A design is described of a broadband circularly-polarized (CP) slot antenna. A conventional annular-ring slot antenna is first analyzed, and it is found that two adjacent CP modes can be simultaneously excited through the proximity coupling of an L-shaped feed line. By tuning the dimensions of this L-shaped feed line, the two CP modes can be coupled together and a broad CP bandwidth is thus formed. The design method is also valid when the inner circular patch of the annular-ring slot antenna is vertically raised from the ground plane. In this case, the original band-limited ring slot antenna is converted into a wide-band structure that is composed of a circular wide slot and a parasitic patch, and consequently the CP bandwidth is further enhanced. For the patch-loaded wide slot antenna, its key parameters are investigated to show how to couple the two CP modes and achieve impedance matching. The effects of the distance between the parasitic patch and wide slot on the CP bandwidth and antenna gain are also presented and discussed in details.      

Broadband circular microstrip antenna with embedded reactiveloading

A novel broadband design for a circular microstrip antenna with reactive loading integrated within the circular patch is proposed and studied. The reactive loading is provided by a microstrip structure of cascaded microstrip-line sections embedded inside a slot cut in the circular patch. The proposed broadband design has been implemented, and the experimental study shows that an antenna bandwidth ~3.2 times that of a conventional circular microstrip antenna can be obtained. Details of the proposed design are described, and experimental results of the antenna performance are presented and discussed     

Broadband circularly-polarised slot antenna array

A stacked slot antenna is proposed and studied to improve the performance of a circularly-polarised (CP) annular-ring slot antenna that has the disadvantages of a narrow bandwidth, a lower gain and bidirectional radiation. The stacked antenna structure is composed of a circular wide slot, a parasitic patch and a metallic reflector, and its CP radiation is excited through the proximity coupling of an L-shaped microstrip line. A 4 times 4 array using the stacked slot antenna as an element is also developed and designed at X-band. Details of the antenna design and obtained results are presented.     

CPW feed circularly polarised microstrip antenna using asymmetric coupling slot

Design of a coplanar waveguide (CPW) feed square microstrip antenna with circular polarisation (CP) radiation is described. This CP design is achieved by using an asymmetric inductively coupling slot in the ground plane of the CPW feed line. Results show that the proposed antenna can have a CP bandwidth of 2.4%, whereas a simple inclined coupling slot case has 1.6% CP bandwidth at a fixed square patch size. Typical experimental results are presented and discussed     

Circularly polarised microstrip antenna with a tuning stub

A simple circular polarisation (CP) design of microstrip antennas using a tuning stub is proposed and studied. It is also demonstrated that, by applying this CP design method to a circular microstrip patch with a cross slot having equal slot lengths, a compact circularly-polarised microstrip antenna can easily be implemented, with much more relaxed manufacturing tolerances as compared to the case of using a cross slot of unequal slot lengths. Details of the antenna designs are described, and experimental results are presented and discussed     

Circular polarised microstrip patch antennas for broadband and dual-band operation

A novel design of microstrip patch antennas for circular polarisation (CP) is proposed. As an example, two CP patch antennas are investigated: a broadband CP patch antenna and a dual-band CP patch antenna. The proposed structure can be achieved by embedding circular holes in the microstrip circular resonator. By changing the size and position of loaded holes, two orthogonal modes are simultaneously excited with equal amplitude and /spl plusmn/90/spl deg/ out of phase. Without any 90/spl deg/ phase-shifter, the proposed CP patch antennas are excited by single feed.     

Broadband circularly-polarised microstrip antenna with switchable polarisation sense

A circularly-polarised microstrip antenna capable of switching polarisation sense is presented. The proposed microstrip antenna has a circular radiating patch and is excited by an open-loop microstrip line through the coupling of a ring slot in the ground plane. Two ends of the open-loop microstrip line can be taken for the input ports to excite right-hand and left-hand circular polarisations, respectively. A prototype using PIN diodes to electrically switch the input ports is implemented, and the measured results show the 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth of more than 10% can be obtained at the two polarisation senses     

Circular-waveguide-fed microstrip patch antennas

A microstrip patch antenna fed by a circular waveguide is presented. The microstrip patch built on a foam substrate is laid on the flange of the circular waveguide's open mouth. The waveguide feeds the patch by coupling energy to the patch through a narrow slot underneath the patch. Two operating frequency bands were observed and the characteristics of the antenna were measured.     

Development of a Cavity-Backed Broadband Circularly Polarized Slot/Strip Loop Antenna With a Simple Feeding Structure

A cavity-backed loop antenna is developed for producing broadband circularly polarized (CP) radiation. The antenna configuration consists of a slot loop and a strip loop. The slot loop radiates a CP wave at a lower frequency while the strip loop produces CP radiation at a higher frequency. A combination of the two frequencies leads to a bandwidth enhancement. The slot/strip loop antenna is fed by a single straight microstrip line. It is demonstrated that the cavity-backed slot/strip loop antenna can achieve an axial ratio (les 3 dB) bandwidth of 19% with good impedance matching. The antenna configuration is described and the operating principles for broadband circular polarization and impedance matching are analyzed. The antenna performance is confirmed by experimental results.     

Single-feed dual-band circularly polarised microstrip antenna

A novel technique for obtaining dual-band circular polarisation (CP) radiation of a single-feed circular microstrip antenna is proposed and demonstrated. By embedding two pairs of arc-shaped slots of proper lengths close to the boundary of a circular patch, and protruding one of the arc-shaped slots with a narrow slot, the circular microstrip antenna can perform dual-band CP radiation using a single probe feed. Details of the antenna design and experimental results are presented     

Coplanar waveguide-fed circularly polarized microstrip antenna

Design of a square microstrip antenna for obtaining circular polarization (CP) radiation using a coplanar waveguide (CPW) feed is presented. This CP design is achieved by insetting a slit to the boundary of the square microstrip patch, which makes possible the splitting of the dominant resonant mode into two near-degenerate orthogonal modes for CP radiation and introducing an inclined slot in the CPW feed line for coupling the electromagnetic (EM) energy of the CPW to the square patch. Good impedance matching for CP operation can be obtained by adjusting the inclined slot length and the tuning-stub length of the CPW feed line. Typical experimental results are presented and discussed     

一种新型环状宽带圆极化微带天线设计

本文设计了一种新型的环状开缝的宽带圆极化微带贴片天线,通过等幅度90°相位差的L型探针馈电。通过在环状贴片上开槽可以有效的增加轴比和阻抗带宽。传统的圆极化天线带宽受限于阻抗、轴比和增益的公共带宽,本文提出的天线得到有效带宽从1.1GHz到1.9GHz,相对带宽达到了53%以上,频带覆盖了GPS、GALILEO、COMPASS、GLONASS四大导航系统。该天线性能较好,加工调试简便,在卫星导航等领域具有广阔的应用前景。     

Single-feed slotted equilateral-triangular microstrip antenna forcircular polarization

Novel designs of single-feed equilateral-triangular microstrip antennas for circular polarization (CP) are proposed and studied experimentally. It is demonstrated that by embedding a narrow slot or a cross slot of unequal slot lengths in the triangular patch, circularly polarized radiation of microstrip antennas can easily be achieved using a single probe feed. Furthermore, results show that for the design with a cross slot, the proposed antenna can perform CP radiation with a reduced antenna size at a given frequency (denoted as compact CP operation here); that is, the required antenna size is smaller for the proposed antenna for performing CP radiation as compared to a conventional circularly polarized triangular microstrip antenna at a fixed operating frequency. Details of the proposed CP designs are described, and typical experimental results are presented and discussed     

一种以空气为基板的圆极化微带天线的设计

设计了一种以空气为基板的超高频（UHF）圆极化矩形微带天线。该天线通过在微带贴片四周与中心开槽,减小了天线尺寸,实现天线圆极化的性能。进一步研究了天线的参数对圆极化性能的影响,通过天线参数的优化,使天线达到了良好的圆极化性能。     

Design of aperture-coupled annular-ring microstrip antennas for circular polarization

The design of an aperture-coupled annular-ring microstrip antenna for circular polarization (CP) is presented. The CP radiation of the annular-ring microstrip antenna is achieved by a series microstrip-line-feed configuration through the coupling of a ring slot in the ground plane. The key parameters of the proposed design are investigated using a commercial simulation software based on the Method of Moments to show how to obtain the 50 /spl Omega/ input impedance and optimum axial ratio. The proposed design can be applied to the annular-ring microstrip antennas with different inner radii and substrate thickness, and several antenna prototypes are constructed and measured. Details of the experimental results of the CP performance are presented and discussed.     

一种UHF频段小型圆极化微带天线

采用曲流技术在贴片内部开十字形缝隙,在贴片边缘开矩形缝隙,并通过对贴片切角形成微扰,设计了一种UHF频段小型圆极化微带天线。设计的贴片天线尺寸为59×59mm^2（即0．176λ）,与相同频率相同介质的普通微带贴片天线相比有约54％的尺寸下降。天线的实测结果显示,在898—925MHz内回波损耗小于-10dB,在910—920MHz实现圆极化特性。     

一种Ka/Ku双波段双极化共口径阵列天线

由于运载能力及卫星平台的限制,星载雷达要求雷达天线具有重量轻、功耗低、体积小、效率高等特点,尤其是对天线口径面积限制较为苛刻,双频段天线要想适用于星载条件,就必须考虑全新的结构形式。介绍了一种适应于星载条件的Ka/Ku双波段双极化共口径阵列天线,其中Ku波段天线双极化工作、Ka波段天线单极化工作。Ku波段天线阵采用了具有两阶零点滤波性能的微带耦合馈电辐射缝隙单元,这种天线单元具有易实现双极化、工作频带宽等优点。Ka波段天线阵采用侧馈微带帖片天线单元,其优点是易于实现与Ku波段天线共孔径。     

Package‐Platformed Linear/Circular Polarization Reconfigurable Antenna Using an Integrated Silicon RF MEMS Switch

This letter presents a K‐band polarization reconfigurable antenna integrated with a silicon radio frequency MEMS switch into the form of a compact package. The proposed antenna can change its state from linear polarization (LP) to circular polarization (CP) by actuating the MEMS switch, which controls the configuration of the coupling ring slot. Low‐loss quartz is used for a radiating patch substrate and at the same time for a packaging lid by stacking it onto the MEMS substrate, which can increase the system integrity. The fabricated antenna shows broadband impedance matching and exhibits high axial ratios better than 15 dB in the LP and small axial ratios in the CP, with a minimum value of 0.002 dB at 20.8 GHz in the K‐band.     

小型化缝隙加载圆极化及宽带微带贴片天线设计

提出了一种十字形缝隙加载的小型宽带及圆极化微带贴片天线的设计方法。该天线通过在方形贴片上加载一个大尺寸的十字形缝隙实现天线的尺寸缩减,介质基片采用由FR4和空气层组成的层叠结构,在缝隙中嵌入L型枝节,只需通过调整枝节上同轴线馈电点的位置来获得圆极化或宽带阻抗匹配。ANSYS HFSS仿真分析表明,天线的圆极化带宽（AR≤3 dB）为1.7%,阻抗带宽（VSWR≤2）为5.8%,天线在宽带范围内具有稳定的增益,峰值增益为7.8 dB,同时贴片面积缩减了52.3%。改变馈电点的位置可调节两个谐振频率使天线阻抗带宽达到9.4%,比传统的微带贴片天线阻抗带宽提高了114%。