Analysis of circularly polarized square ring and crossed-strip microstrip antennas

Segmentation technique coupled with cavity model have been used to analyze square ring and crossed-strip microstrip patch antennas for circular polarization. This technique is found to predict the characteristics of antennas correctly, as is evident from the close agreement between the calculated and measured results for resonant frequency, input impedance, radiation patterns, and bandwidth. Square ring antenna has been found to have larger impedance bandwidth and axial ratio bandwidth because of lowerQ. Crossed-strip antenna has larger size and thus fabrication tolerances can be relaxed.