Design and characterization of an efficient multi-layered circularly polarized microstrip antenna

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 1101-1109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pravin R. Prajapati ◽  
Amalendu Patnaik ◽  
M. V. Kartikeyan
Keyword(s):  
Microstrip Antenna ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
High Gain ◽  
Center Frequency ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Mobile Telecommunication ◽  
Defected Ground Structure ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Laboratory Prototype

A novel asymmetric “+” shaped fractal slotted circularly polarized microstrip antenna with a Yagi–Uda structure is proposed. Four asymmetric plus shape slots are embedded symmetrically in the center of all four quadrants of a square patch. To suppress undesirable higher modes, dumbbell-shaped defected ground structure (DGS) is introduced at the ground layer of the antenna. We introduce a method to compensate the reduction in gain occurring due to the presence of DGS, without changing in the overall size of the antenna. A 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth of 4 MHz at center frequency of 862 MHz, 10 dB impedance bandwidth of 13.20 MHz and a gain of 4.25 dB is achieved with the proposed antenna. A laboratory prototype of the proposed antenna is made to cross-verify the simulation results. Very good agreements between the two are obtained. The proposed antenna may prove useful for International Mobile Telecommunication application for designing high-gain arrays.

scholarly journals High Gain Circularly Polarized Pentagonal Microstrip for Massive MIMO Base Station

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-91
Author(s):  
R. S. Bhadade ◽  
S. P. Mahajan
Keyword(s):  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Return Loss ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
High Gain ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Cellular Systems ◽  
Center Frequency ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Circularly Polarized

In this paper we propose a circularly polarized pentagonal microstrip antenna on a suspended substrate with coaxial probe feed and five loaded slits for Massive MIMO BS Antenna applications. Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) is one of the key component to be incorporated in the 5G cellular systems. The proposed antenna is successfully simulated using HFSS 13.0, fabricated on a FR-4 substrate and measured. The proposed antenna exhibits a much higher gain of 6.17dB, improved impedance bandwidth of 171.9 MHz (Return loss, S11= -10dB) , axial ratio bandwidth (< 3dB) of 135 MHz , patch area of 1775 mm2  , and also yields return loss better than -15 dB around the center frequency of 2.45 GHz (ISM Band). Measured characteristics of the antenna are in good agreement with the simulated results.

A high gain wideband circularly polarized microstrip antenna

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 678-687
Author(s):  
Arun Kumar ◽  
Santanu Dwari ◽  
Ganga Prasad Pandey ◽  
Binod Kumar Kanaujia ◽  
Dinesh Kumar Singh
Keyword(s):  
Microstrip Antenna ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
High Gain ◽  
Split Ring Resonator ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Reflected Waves ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Gain Enhancement ◽  
Reflector Surface ◽  
Printed Monopole Antenna

AbstractIn this paper, a high gain wideband circularly polarized (CP) microstrip antenna is presented for broadband operation. The proposed structure comprised of a partially grounded printed monopole antenna loaded with a split ring resonator and a metallic reflector. By using the metallic reflector surface underneath the patch radiator results in the reflected waves in the same phase with main lobe radiation, thereby improving the gain and it also acts like a secondary radiator to generate wideband CP behavior in the proposed design. A gain enhancement of 4.3 dBi is achieved in the operating frequency band as compared with the design without a metallic reflector. The maximum gain achieved in the presented method is 8.6 dBic over the entire operating range. The proposed design shows a wideband behavior ranging from 4.30 to 9.10 GHz with the 10-dB impedance bandwidth of 71.64%. In addition, the proposed design yielded a broadside right hand CP radiation with a 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth of 33.88% from 4.98 to 7.01 GHz. The proposed antenna is fabricated and experimental results on reflection coefficient, gain, axial ratio, and radiation patterns concede well with simulation results.

Bilayer split-ring chiral metamaterial based reconfigurable antenna for polarization conversion

Frequenz ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Preet Kaur ◽  
Pravin R. Prajapati
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Center Frequency ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Split Ring ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
Rectangular Patch ◽  
Mode 2 ◽  
Chiral Metamaterial

Abstract A bilayer split-ring chiral metamaterial converts the linearly polarized wave, into a nearly perfect left or right-handed circularly polarized wave. The proposed antenna is intended to operate at center frequency of 5.80 GHz with switchable polarization capability. The polarization re-configurability is achieved by electronically switching of two PIN-diode pairs, which are embedded into bilayer split-ring Chiral Metamaterial. The optimized length of rectangular patch is 16 mm and width is 12.1 mm. Two types of radiation characteristics offered by the proposed antenna; left hand circularly polarized in mode 1 and right hand circularly polarized in mode 2. Measured results show that its impedance bandwidth is 155 MHz from 5.70 to 5.855 GHz for both mode 1 and mode 2. The measured axial-ratio bandwidth is 100 MHz from 5.75 to 5.85 GHz for mode 1 and 110 MHz from 5.73 to 5.84 GHz for mode 2. Antenna has LHCP gain of 2.52 dBi and RHCP gain of −23 dBi in mode 1. RHCP gain of 2 dBi and polarization purity of about −20 dBi is obtained in mode 2. The proposed antenna has simple structure, low cost and it has potential application in field of wireless communication (i.e., WiMax, WLAN etc.).

Analysis and design of inclined fractal defected ground-based circularly polarized antenna for CA-band applications

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Sonal Gupta ◽  
Shilpee Patil ◽  
Chhaya Dalela ◽  
Binod Kumar Kanaujia
Keyword(s):  
Ground Plane ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Mobile Wimax ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Ieee 802.16E ◽  
Defected Ground Structure ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Centre Frequency ◽  
Good Agreement

Abstract Design of single-feed circularly polarized (CP) microstrip antenna is proposed in this article. The design employs the concept of E-shape patch with inclined fractal defected ground structure (IFDGS), which can improve the impedance bandwidth, gain, and axial ratio (AR) bandwidth. The excellent enhanced impedance bandwidth, axial ratio bandwidth, and gain are achieved by an inclined E-shaped fractal etched on the ground plane. The parameter studies of the E-shaped IFDGS are given to illustrate the way to obtain CP radiation. The third iterative IFDGS is fabricated on easily available FR4 substrate with a size of 0.494 λ0 × 0.494 λ0 × 0.019 λ0 (λ0 is the wavelength in free space at 3.624 GHz). The measured results verify the simulated results and show good agreement. The proposed antenna shows an impedance bandwidth of 12.7% at a centre frequency of 3.47 GHz and 3-dB AR bandwidth for this band is 2.39% at a centre frequency of 3.626 GHz. The measured peak gain for the proposed antenna is found as 8.1 dBi. The proposed antenna can be suitable for mobile WIMAX operation (IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard), wireless communication in CA-band and FCC.

ANALYSIS PERFORMANCE OF SINGLY-FED CIRCULARLY POLARIZED MICROSTRIP ANTENNA FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

2016 ◽  
Vol 78 (5-9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Fauzan Edy Purnomo ◽  
Hadi Suyono ◽  
Panca Mudjirahardjo ◽  
Rini Nur Hasanah
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Communication ◽  
Circular Polarization ◽  
Microstrip Antenna ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Microstrip Antennas ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Antenna Structure ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Large Bandwidth ◽  
Doubly Fed

The circularly polarized (CP) microstrip antennas, both of singly- and doubly-fed types, possess inherent limitation in gain, impedance and axial-ratio bandwidths. These limitations are caused mainly by the natural resonance of the patch antenna which has a high unloaded Q-factor and the frequency-dependent excitation of two degenerative modes (TM01 and TM10) when using a single feed. Many applications which require circular polarization, large bandwidth, and good performance, especially in the field of wireless communication, are still difficult to be designed by using antenna software. Some consideration to take will include the application target and design specification, the materials to be used, and the method to choose (formula, numerical analysis, etc). This paper explains and analyzes the singly-fed microstrip antenna with circular polarization and large bandwidth. This singly-fed type of microstrip antenna provides certain advantage of requiring no external circular polarizer, e.g. the 900 hybrid, as it only needs to apply some perturbation or modification to a patch radiator with a standard geometry. The design of CP and large-bandwidth microstrip antenna is done gradually, by firstly truncating one tip, then truncating the whole three tips, and finally modifying it into a pentagonal patch structure and adding an air-gap to obtain larger bandwidths of impedance, gain and axial ratio. The last one antenna structure results in a novelty because it is a rare design of antenna which includes all types of bandwidth (impedance, gain, and axial ratio) being simultaneously larger than the origin antenna. The resulted characteristic performance of the 1-tip (one-tip) antenna shows respectively 1.9% of impedance bandwidth, 3.1% of gain bandwidth, and 0.45% of axial-ratio bandwidth. For the 3-tip (three-tip) step, the resulted bandwidths of respectively impedance, gain, and axial ratio are 1.7%, 3.3% and 0.5%. The pentagonal structure resulted in the bandwith values of 15.67%, 52.16% and 4.11% respectively for impedance, gain, and axial ratio. 

A compact polarization reconfigurable stacked microstrip antenna for WiMAX application

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Murari Shaw ◽  
Niranjan Mandal ◽  
Malay Gangopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Microstrip Antenna ◽  
Impedance Matching ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Dual Band ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Rectangular Slot ◽  
Substrate Layer ◽  
Linearly Polarized ◽  
Coaxial Probe

Abstract In this paper, a stacked microstrip patch antenna with polarization reconfigurable property has been proposed for worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) application. The proposed antenna has two substrate layers: upper and lower layers with two radiating patches connected with the coaxial probe. Without the upper layer the lower square-shaped substrate layer having regular hexagonal radiating patch with probe fed acts as a linear polarized antenna with impedance bandwidth for (S11 ≤ −10 dB) is 370 MHz 10.56% (3.32–3.69 GHz) cover WiMAX (3.4–3.69 GHz) application band. The hexagonal radiating patch is perturbed with an optimum rectangular slot to enhance the impedance bandwidth of the antenna. The lower substrate layer having hexagonal patch with the same probe position is stacked with the upper square-shaped substrate layer with same sized square patch and the upper patch soldered with the coaxial probe. The overall stacked antenna generates a circularly polarized band when the opposite corner of the top square radiating patch of the upper layer is truncated with optimum size. In order to generate another circularly polarized band and to improve the input impedance matching of the stacked antenna, the top radiating patch is perturbed with two slots and a slit. The stacked circularly polarized antenna generates impedance bandwidth of 12.75% (3.23–3.67 GHz) for (S11 ≤ −10 dB) with two circularly polarized bands (3.34–3.37 GHz) and (3.66–3.70 GHz) as per (axial ratio ≤ 3 dB) for WiMAX application. Therefore, the proposed antenna can be used as linearly polarized or dual band circularly polarized according to requirement.

Reconfigurable circularly polarized capacitive coupled microstrip antenna

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 843-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinesh Kumar Singh ◽  
Binod Kumar Kanaujia ◽  
Santanu Dwari ◽  
Ganga Prasad Pandey ◽  
Sandeep Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Circular Polarization ◽  
Microstrip Antenna ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Dual Band ◽  
Single Frequency ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Pin Diode ◽  
Dual Frequency ◽  
Pin Diodes ◽  
Circularly Polarized

The design and measurement of reconfigurable circularly polarized capacitive fed microstrip antenna are presented. Small isosceles right angle triangular sections are removed from diagonally opposite corners for the generation of circular polarization (CP) of axial ratio bandwidth of 11.1%. Horizontal slits of different lengths are inserted at the edges of the truncated patch to provide the dual-band CP and by switching PIN diodes across the slits ON and OFF, reconfigurable circularly polarized antenna is realized. The antenna shows dual-band behavior with reconfigurable CP. In order to enhance the operation bandwidth of the antenna, an inclined slot was embedded on the patch along with PIN diodes across the horizontal slits. This proposed antenna gave an impedance bandwidth of 66.61% (ON state) ranging from 4.42 to 8.80 GHz and 68.42% (OFF state) ranging from 4.12 to 8.91 GHz and exhibits dual-frequency CP with PIN diode in OFF state and single-frequency CP with PIN diode in ON state with good axial ratio bandwidth. The axial ratio bandwidth of 4.42, 2.35, and 2.72% is obtained from the antenna. The antenna has a similar radiation pattern in all the three different CP bands and almost constant gain within the bands of CP operation.

scholarly journals Compact Wideband Circularly Polarized Antenna with Symmetric Parasitic Rectangular Patches for Ka-Band Applications

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Rongling Jian ◽  
Yueyun Chen ◽  
Taohua Chen
Keyword(s):  
Microstrip Antenna ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Ka Band ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Rectangular Slot ◽  
Measured Impedance ◽  
Small Antenna ◽  
The Right

In this paper, a novel wideband circularly polarized (CP) millimeter wave (mmWave) microstrip antenna is presented. The proposed antenna consists of a central patch and a microstrip line radiator. The CP radiation is achieved by loading a rectangular slot on the ground plane. To improve the 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW), two symmetric parasitic rectangular patches paralleled to a central patch and a slit positioned to the right of the central patch are loaded. To verify this design, the proposed antenna is fabricated with a small antenna of 2.88 × 3.32 × 0.508 mm3. The measured impedance bandwidth (IMBW) for S11<−10 dB of the proposed antenna is 35.97% (22.8 to 33.8 GHz). Meanwhile, the simulation result shows that the 3-dB ARBW is 15.19% (28.77 to 33.5 GHz) within impedance bandwidth, and the peak gain is from 5.08 to 5.22 dBic within 3-dB ARBW. The proposed antenna is suitable for CP applications in the Ka-band.

A compact, dual wide-band circularly polarized, modified square ring slot antenna for C and Ku band applications

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shilpee Patil ◽  
Anil Kumar Singh ◽  
Binod Kumar Kanaujia ◽  
R. L. Yadava
Keyword(s):  
Ground Plane ◽  
Simulated Data ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Radiation Characteristic ◽  
Dual Band ◽  
Slot Antenna ◽  
Center Frequency ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Circularly Polarized

AbstractThis paper presents a compact microstrip antenna using FR-4 substrate for dual band circularly polarized operation using a modified square ring slot in the ground plane with microstrip line feed. Simulation of the impedance characteristic and radiation characteristic for the proposed antenna is carried out using commercially available HFSS software. The simulated data validate measured results and shows good agreement. Proposed antenna shows an impedance bandwidth (return loss >10 dB) of 50.88% at 5.9 GHz of center frequency and 29.92% at 12.8 GHz of center frequency for lower and upper band, respectively. The 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth for lower and upper band is 26.4 and 3.0%, respectively and measured peak gain for the lower and upper band is found as 3.2 and 3.4 dBic, respectively. The proposed antenna can be suitable for wireless communication in C and Ku bands.

Low-cost and compact 3D circularly polarized Microstrip antenna with high efficiency and wide beamwidth

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 1533-1540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Chen ◽  
Zhen Wei ◽  
Dan Wu ◽  
Long Yang ◽  
Guang Fu
Keyword(s):  
Microstrip Antenna ◽  
Printed Circuit Boards ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
3D Structure ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Axial Ratio ◽  
Impedance Bandwidth ◽  
Circuit Boards ◽  
Circularly Polarized

A compact three-dimensional (3D) circularly polarized (CP) microstrip antenna is presented in this paper. The antenna adopts three low-cost printed circuit boards to form an integrated and closed 3D structure, and the radiation patch and the feed patches are etched on the surface of that. A crossed slot is cut on the radiation patch to miniaturize the antenna, and triangular feed patches are introduced to increase the bandwidths. In addition, because of the utilization of a low-loss series feed line, the antenna has a high efficiency of more than 95%. A prototype of the antenna is measured to validate the method. The dimensions of the antenna is 0.064λ × 0.36λ (λ is the wavelength in free space at 1.2 GHz). The results indicate that the impedance bandwidth for voltage standing wave ratio ≤ 2 reaches 23%, and the bandwidth for axial ratio (AR) ≤ 3 dB reaches 10.1%. In the overlap band, the gains are > 4.5dBic. Additionally, the 3 dB beamwidth is more than 114°, and the beamwidth for AR ≤ 3 dB is more than 131° at 1.2 GHz.

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