A Planar Integrated Folded Reflectarray Antenna with Circular Polarization

Chong Zhang, Yongfeng Wang, Fuguo Zhu, Gao Wei, Jianzhou Li, Changying Wu, Steven Gao, Haitao Liu

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This communication presents the complete design of a circularly polarized (CP) folded reflectarray (FRA) antenna with an integrated planar structure for the first time in the open literature. To achieve circularly polarized, a printed meander-line polarizer is designed and integrated with the linearly polarized (LP) FRA. To achieve a low-profile planar structure, an integrated 2 × 2 planar array is designed as the feed source instead of a horn. Thus, the whole antenna, including the feed source, LPFRA, and meander-line polarizer, can be fully integrated and fabricated using low-cost printed circuit board technology. To validate the concept, a right-handed CPFRA operating in C-band is designed, fabricated, and measured. The broadside axial ratio (AR) of the proposed CPFRA is lower than 1 dB over a bandwidth from 5.22 to 5.46 GHz. In addition, the maximum gain of 22.8 dBic is obtained at 5.38 GHz with the antenna efficiency of 27%. The antenna is promising for applications in satellite communication due to advantages of low profile, easy fabrication, low cost, and high gain.

源语言英语
文章编号7727960
页(从-至)385-390
页数6
期刊IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
65
1
DOI
出版状态已出版 - 1月 2017

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