A Broadband Circularly Polarized Crossed-Dipole Antenna

Rui Xu, Jian Ying Li, Wei Kun

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Abstract

A unidirectional broadband circularly polarized (CP) crossed-dipole antenna is presented in this communication. This antenna has a simple feeding structure, which uses an unequal power network. It can simply realize 90° phase shift and four equal power divisions. The study of the antenna performance with different geometric parameters has been conducted. Working band of designed antenna covers the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, GPS, and GLNOSS bands. An optimized antenna is designed and measured, the measured results agree well with the simulated results. The results show good performance of impendence bandwidth is approximately 66.2% (1.01-2.01 GHz), the 3-dB axial-ratio bandwidth (ARBW) of approximately 41.3% (1.21-1.97 GHz). Moreover, the measured bore-sight antenna gain is stable and varying not too much, which average value is 6.0 dBic with less than 1.5-dB variation within the 3-dB ARBW.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7506241
Pages (from-to)4509-4513
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume64
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2016

Keywords

  • Broadband
  • circularly polarized (CP)
  • dipole antenna
  • unidirectional antenna

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