An offset CPW-fed triple-band circularly polarized printed antenna for multiband wireless applications

An offset coplanar waveguide (CPW)-fed triple-band circularly polarized tilted asymmetrical E-shaped printed antenna for multiband wireless applications is presented in this paper. The antenna mainly consists of a tilted asymmetrical E-shaped patch and excite by a 50 Ω offset CPW feed line using a transformer for impedance matching to generate wide quad operating bands. By properly embedding rectangular slots in the tilted asymmetrical E-shaped patch and triangular stubs loaded modified CPW ground plane, the antenna reveals triple-band circular polarization (CP) features. Numerical analysis and experimental validation of the antenna structure have been carried out and results are presented. The mechanism of triple-band CP operation, analysis of surface current distributions, design procedure, and parametric study of the design is discussed in details. It is well suited for the application of UMTS-2100, 3.5/5.5 GHz WiMAX, 5.2/5.8 GHz WLAN, ITS, downlink of X-band satellite communication, and ITU 8 GHz bands.     

A circularly polarized slot antenna for high gain applications

A coplanar waveguide fed slot antenna for wideband circular polarization is designed and experimentally validated. The rectangular slot is excited using a stepped feed line terminated on a circular disc shaped tuning stub. To obtain circular polarization, inverted L-shaped strips are attached to the ground plane at the opposite corners while a rectangular slit is cut in the circular disc. The combined bandwidth (3-dB axial ratio and 10 dB impedance matching) achieved is 48% (4.35–7.1 GHz) under simulation and 40% (4.75–7.1 GHz) in measurement. The gain of the antenna is next enhanced by the application of a double layered square loop frequency selective surface. The frequency selective surface is used as a reflector placed beneath the antenna at an optimum distance. An improvement of about 4 dB is seen in the measured peak gain over most of the operating band. Experimental results are presented to characterize the antenna and the frequency selective surface and they are found to be in good agreement with the simulated results.     

Reconfigurable dual-band circularly polarized microstrip patch antenna for wireless applications

A new design of reconfigurable single-feed circular patch microstrip antenna for dual-band circular polarization application is proposed. The dual-band functionality is realized through incorporating cross-slots of equal slot length in the circular patch and utilizing two PIN diodes to switch the slots on or off. A pairs of tuning stubs are used to tune the circular polarization performance. The design process is presented and good results were obtained.     

Miniaturized wideband dual linearly and circularly polarized printed square slot antenna for multiradio wireless systems

A dual symmetrical coplanar waveguide (CPW)-fed small size wideband printed square slot antenna (SSA) with dual linearly and circularly polarized radiation capability is presented. The antenna is composed using a square slot, two symmetrical orthogonal CPW feed lines connected to horizontal and vertical arm of L-shaped radiator, an embedded parasitic inverted-L strip at the lower left corner of the square ground slot and engraving slots in the ground plane. Circular polarization (CP) is achieved due to two orthogonal CPW feed lines and a common L-shaped radiator. Isolation between ports is improved by engraving slots at the lower left corner of ground plane and embedded parasitic inverted-L strip. The sense of dual-polarization can be changed in pass-band by changing the port excitation. Measured antenna reveals that an 84.4% (4.6 GHz, 3.15–7.75 GHz) −10 dB impedance bandwidth (IBW) and about 33% (2.03 GHz, 5.12–7.15 GHz) 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW). Isolation between ports <−16 dB is achieved over usable CP band.     

A novel circularly polarized reader antenna design for UHF RFID applications

Wireless Networks - In this article, a novel ultra-high frequency radio frequency identification (UHF RFID) reader antenna is proposed and experimentally investigated. The proposed RFID antenna...     

A new multimode rectangular horn antenna generating a circularly polarized elliptical beam

A multimode circularly polarized rectangular horn antenna generating an elliptical shaped beam is described. This antenna operates in two orthogonal mode sets, namely the TE10+ TE/TM12and TE01+ TE/TM21modes. By virtue of the higher order TE/TM modes, the apertureE-field distribution can be tapered such that the effectiveE-plane far-field beam width is approximately equal to theH-plane beam width of the other orthogonal set of modes, resulting in low off-axis polarization axial ratio. Because of the tapered aperture distribution, the radiation patterns also have low sidelobes. The elliptical cross section beam is a direct result of the rectangular shaped aperture. This antenna, used in conjunction with a spacecraft to illuminate an elliptical zone on the earth surface, offers high edge-of-coverage gain, low sidelobes, low edge-of-coverage (EOC) axial ratio, less RF sensitivity to the space environment, and low cost. The performance of this antenna has been evaluated experimentally.     

A low profile circularly polarized UWB antenna with integrated GSM band for wireless communication

A novel monopole antenna with wide impedance bandwidth and axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW) is presented. The proposed structure is consisting of a wide slot hexagonal shape with an L-shaped radiator coupled inside the slot. Further, two inverted L-shaped strips are protruded on the opposite corners of the hexagonal patch for better radiation capability. The radiating patch is fed by a semi hexagonal ring feed mechanism followed by a tapered line coplanar waveguide (CPW) for improving antenna performance. The proposed structure is supported by a triangular shaped ground plane. An extremely wide -10 dB impedance bandwidth of around 195% and 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth of 32.5% is achieved. The designed antenna has stable radiation characteristics within the operating band. Proposed antenna is fabricated on FR4 epoxy substrate by means of standard photolithography process and measured results are found in a good match with simulated.     

一种圆极化透镜天线

提出了一款宽频带高增益的圆极化毫米波天线.该天线由一个半球形的介质透镜圆顶以及一个圆柱形极化器结合而成,将传统的扩展半球介质透镜与介质极化器融合在一起,既能将线极化波转化成圆极化波（反之亦然）,又能有效提高天线的增益.该设计与传统的级联结构（透镜级联极化器）不同,它能够用一个器件同时实现两个器件的功能,并且能大大减小系统的体积,降低插入损耗,减少生产成本.此外,该天线采用3D打印技术来实现,加工精度高并且容易生产,适合于毫米波天线的应用.经过验证,该天线的阻抗带宽能达到38%,轴比带宽为36%,圆极化增益达到22 dBic.     

5.8-GHz circularly polarized dual-rhombic-loop traveling-wave rectifying antenna for low power-density wireless power transmission applications

This paper reports a right-hand circularly polarized (RHCP) high-efficiency traveling-wave rectifying antenna (rectenna) designed in a coplanar stripline (CPS) circuit that is etched on a Rogers Duroid 5870 substrate with /spl epsiv//sub r/=2.2 and 20-mil thickness. A 4 /spl times/ 1 traveling-wave array of RHCP high-gain dual-rhombic-loop antennas (DRLAs) and a reflecting plane are used to provide highly efficient RF-to-DC conversion in the presence of lower power densities regardless of the rectenna's broadside orientation. The DRLA array has a circularly polarized antenna gain of 14.6 dB with a 2:1 voltage standing-wave ratio bandwidth of 17% and a better than 3 dB axial ratio fractional bandwidth of 7% centered about 5.8 GHz. The rectenna achieves 82% RF-to-DC conversion efficiency at 5.8 GHz and uses a low-profile CPS band-reject filter to suppress the re-radiated second harmonic by over 14 dB. The rectenna operating at low power density should have many applications when the transmitting power is low and/or the transmission distance is long.     

A wide-band circularly polarized antenna

The design construction and testing of a wide-band circularly polarized antenna suitable for ionospheric research is described. The antenna operates in the range 2 to 7 MHz. Simple design formulas are given for the required broad-band phase shifting networks. Broad-band dipole antennas are used and suitable "balancing networks" are developed to match these antennas to the phase shifting networks ever the frequency range. A satisfactory compromise solution is found to the problem of matching the networks to the receiver using a broad-band transformer. Measurements of the rejection ratio of the system show that it is always better than approximately 16:1 over the required frequency range.     

An original circularly polarized backfire antenna with high gain

In this paper, a circularly polarized backfire antenna with an original structure and excellent properties is presented. It is designed on the basis of “Equivalent Reflector Method” proposed by the author.     

A broadband circularly polarized cavity-backed Archimedean spiral array antenna for C-band applications

In this letter, a new configuration of sequentially rotated circularly polarized (CP) array antenna with a modified gain is investigated. In order to realize the presented antenna, four Archimedean spiral radiators are applied on a substrate, backed by a circularly slotted ground plane. Also a combination of 180° rat-race coupler and 90° branch-line couplers prepare the employed feeding network in this study. Furthermore, cavity-backed structure is utilized to enhance the antenna gain and achieve a directional radiation pattern over the operating frequency band. This configuration also extends the return loss (RL) and the axial ratio (AR) bandwidths, simultaneously. According to the experimental results, the 2 × 2 CP array antenna has RL bandwidth of 64.28%, AR bandwidth of 54.28%, and peak gain of 10.84 dBic. The close correspondence between the measured and the simulated results validates the proposed design.     

5.8-GHz circularly polarized rectifying antenna for wireless microwave power transmission

This paper reports a new circularly polarized (CP) high-gain high-efficiency rectifying antenna (rectenna). The CP rectenna can be rotated and still maintain a constant dc output voltage. The high-gain antenna has an advantage of reducing the total number of rectenna elements to cover a fixed area. The rectenna is etched on Rogers Duroid 5870 substrate with /spl epsi//sub r/=2.33 and 10 mil thickness. A high-gain dual-rhombic-loop antenna and a reflecting plane are used to achieve a CP antenna gain of 10.7 dB and a 2:1 voltage standing-wave ratio bandwidth of 10%. The rectenna's pattern has an elliptical cross section with orthogonal beamwidths of 40/spl deg/ and 60/spl deg/. The rectenna circuit has a coplanar stripline band-reject filter that suppresses the re-radiated harmonics by 20 dB. A highly efficient Schottky diode is used for RF-to-dc conversion with an efficiency of approximately 80% for an input power level of 100 mW and a load resistance of 250 /spl Omega/.     

Bandwidth enhancement of a printed wide-slot antenna with small slots

In this paper, four printed wide-slot antenna fed by a microstrip line with a polygonal slot for bandwidth enhancement is proposed and experimentally studied. One of these antennas is fabricated and measured. Impedance, radiation and gaincharacteristics of this antenna are presented and discussed. From experimental results, the measured impedance bandwidth, defined by 10-dB return loss, can reach an operating bandwidth of 4.03 GHz at operating frequencies from approximately 1.87 to 5.90 GHz.     

宽带高增益圆极化微带-喇叭组合天线

研究了一种具有良好工作性能的微带-喇叭组合右旋圆极化天线,首先设计了一种双层宽带圆极化微带天线结构,同时满足电压驻波比(VSWR)≤2,轴比(AR)≤4 dB的频带宽度(Bw)≥24%,主极化增益大于9 dBi;通过引入角锥喇叭结构,在工作频带内将天线增益提高到12 dBi以上,同时不影响原天线的其他性能。为更好了解微带-喇叭组合右旋圆极化天线的性能,并快速而准确地设计该天线结构,对天线主要几何参数进行了适当分析和研究。     

A broadband circularly polarized antenna of square-ring patch for UHF RFID reader applications

A circularly polarized, broad bandwidth, square-ring patch antenna for radio-frequency identification (RFID) is proposed. The antenna has a dimension of 100 × 100 × 22.9 mm³. By using a Wilkinson power divider and a patch-antenna structure, a measured 3-dB axial-ratio bandwidth of approximately 140 MHz (16.47%), an impedance bandwidth of 136 MHz (15.81%), and a measured peak gain of approximately 6.8 dBic are being achieved. The operating band of the proposed antenna is suitable for China (840–846 MHz), Europe (865–868 MHz) and the United States (902–928 MHz) ultra-high frequency (UHF) RFID applications.     

Low-profile circularly polarized rectifying antenna for wireless power transmission at 5.8 GHz

Portable devices operating without batteries are sometimes desired in wireless applications such as RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and telemetry. A novel circularly polarized shorted annular ring-slot rectenna (rectifying antenna) on a 0.5 mm thick flexible microwave laminate is proposed for the powering of these devices. Output dc voltage of 1.3 V and axial ratio of 1.5 dB were measured when 32 dBm microwave power was transmitted at 5.8 GHz over a distance of 2 m. Comparing the results with a rectenna designed on a thick rigid laminate, similar performance was observed.     

Small circularly polarised printed antenna

A compact circularly polarised printed antenna is presented. The antenna consists of a synchronous subarray of shorted patches with the required feed network etched on a high dielectric constant substrate located below the ground-plane of the antenna. The 10 dB return loss and the 3dB axial ratio bandwidths are 8.5 and 11.3%, respectively. The overall size of the proposed antenna is 0.195 λ₀×0.195 λ₀×0.0523λ₀     

基于超表面的低剖面高增益圆极化天线

提出了一种基于缝隙耦合超材料表面的低剖面圆极化高增益天线,该天线由一个超材料表面和一个微带缝隙天线紧贴着组成.通过改变超表面切角的大小来产生圆极化波,同时还可以提高天线增益和拓宽阻抗带宽.为了验证仿真结果,制作和测量了一个大小为1λ×1λ×0.067λ(在10 GHz处)的样本天线,仿真和测量结果显示出良好的一致性.结...     

A circularly polarized small-size microstrip antenna with a crossslot

An antenna with a low profile, small size, and a light weight is required in mobile satellite communications. A new, circularly polarized small-size microstrip antenna using a proximity coupled feed method is proposed. A simple configuration based on a cross slot with unequal slot lengths on a circular patch is adopted to realize a small-size element antenna. The proposed antenna has no 90° hybrid coupler for circular polarization. The measured results verify the circular polarization, and the antenna radius was reduced by about 36% by using the slot lengths which are nearly equal to the diameter of the circular patch antenna. Good impedance and axial ratio characteristics have been obtained