scholarly journals Simple Reconfigurable Circularly Polarized Antenna at Three Bands

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (10) ◽  
pp. 2316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tu Le ◽  
Han-Young Park ◽  
Tae-Yeoul Yun

In this paper, a simple design for a triple-band circularly polarized (CP) antenna with the capability of switching its polarization between dual-sense CPs is presented. The proposed antenna is comprised of a monopole loop antenna as a primary radiator. By placing a parasitic loop around the primary radiator, an additional CP band is achieved. Reconfigurability of the polarization between right-hand CP (RHCP) and left-hand CP (LHCP) at three different frequencies of 2.5, 3.3, and 3.8 GHz was realized by controlling the ON/OFF states of two PIN diodes. For validation, the fabricated antenna yielded an impedance bandwidth of 52.6% (2.34–4.01 GHz), while the axial ratio bandwidths for both the RHCP and LHCP states were 3.5% (2.47–2.56 GHz), 6.6% (3.20–3.42 GHz), and 2.4% (3.74–3.83 GHz). The measured broadside gains within the axial ratio bandwidth were 1.2, 2.7, and 1.4 dBi, respectively. Compared to other reconfigurable multi-band CP antennas, the proposed design is the first work to achieve a reconfigurable polarization at three distinct bands at a low fabrication cost by using only two diodes. The proposed antenna is suitable for WLAN and WiMAX applications.

Frequenz ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 255-262
Author(s):  
Supakit Kawdungta ◽  
Chuwong Phongcharoenpanich

AbstractThis research proposes a novel circularly polarized (CP) reconfigurable microstrip loop antenna for 2.4–2.5 GHz advanced wireless communication using two parasitic patches and two PIN diodes. The reconfigurable antenna can alternate between right hand circular polarization (RHCP) and left hand circular polarization (LHCP) at the main beam by manipulating the ON/OFF status of the PIN diodes. Simulations were carried out for the optimal antenna parameters, and an antenna prototype was fabricated and experiments were undertaken. The simulation and measured results are in good agreement. The antenna achieves an impedance bandwidth of 2.4–2.5 GHz and unidirectional radiation pattern with a maximum gain of 5 dBic and 3-dB axial ratio for both RHCP and LHCP. As a result, the proposed reconfigurable antenna could be utilized to improve wireless communication performance. In essence, the novelty of this research lies in the utilization of parasitic patches and shorted PIN diodes to transform linear to circular polarization; and the reconfigurability of polarization between RHCP and LHCP.


Frequenz ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Preet Kaur ◽  
Pravin R. Prajapati

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.).


Frequenz ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 317-320
Author(s):  
Saeid Karamzadeh ◽  
Vahid Rafiei ◽  
Hasan Saygin

Abstract In this work circularly polarization diversity has been achieved by utilizing two Schottky diodes on low profile cavity-backed substrate integrated waveguide (CBSIW). In comparison with other studies in the literature, the size of antenna has been reduced to 0.54λg × 0.76λg by helping a 50-Ohm coaxial feed line. The impedance bandwidth, axial ratio bandwidth and antenna gain are improved to 10.02 %, 5.2 % and 7.68dBi, respectively. In addition, the proposed antenna can generate either a left-hand circularly polarized (LHCP) or a right-hand circularly polarized (RHCP) radiation. The developed antenna was fabricated and tested and the achieved results were in good agreement with the simulated one.


2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 843-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinesh Kumar Singh ◽  
Binod Kumar Kanaujia ◽  
Santanu Dwari ◽  
Ganga Prasad Pandey ◽  
Sandeep Kumar

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.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Zhou ◽  
Junping Geng ◽  
Zhe Li ◽  
Wenzhi Wang ◽  
Xianling Liang ◽  
...  

A dual circularly polarized (CP) omnidirectional antenna based on slot array in coaxial cylinder structure is presented in this paper. It is constructed by perpendicular slot pairs around and along the axis of the coaxial cylinder to realize the omnidirectional CP property, and two ports are assigned in its two sides as left hand circularly polarized (LHCP) port and right hand circularly polarized (RHCP) port, respectively. The proposed antenna achieves a bandwidth of 16.4% ranging from 5.05 to 5.95 GHz with an isolation higher than 15 dB between the two CP ports, and the return loss (RL) is higher than 10 dB within the bandwidth in both of the two ports. From the measured results, the average axial ratio (AR) of the proposed antenna in omnidirectional plane is lower than 1.5 dB.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (19) ◽  
pp. 5610
Author(s):  
Sachin Kumar ◽  
Gwan Hui Lee ◽  
Dong Hwi Kim ◽  
Hyun Chul Choi ◽  
Kang Wook Kim

A broadband compact-sized planar four-port multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) antenna with polarization diversity is presented. The proposed dual circularly polarized (CP) MIMO antenna consists of four G-shaped monopole elements, two of which are left-hand CP and the other two are right-hand CP. A vertical line strip in the G-shaped radiating element acts in balancing the vertical and horizontal electric field components to obtain 90° phase difference between them for circular polarization. Also, an I-shaped strip is incorporated between the ground planes of the G-shaped antenna elements to obtain equal voltage level in the proposed MIMO configuration. The dual circular polarization mechanism of the proposed MIMO/diversity antenna is analysed from the vector current distributions. The impedance bandwidth (S11 ≤ –10 dB) of the MIMO antenna is 105.9% (4–13 GHz) and the 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW) is 67.7% (4.2–8.5 GHz), which is suitable for C-band applications. The overall size of the MIMO antenna is 70 × 68 × 1.6 mm3, and the minimum isolation between the resonating elements is 18 dB. The envelope correlation coefficient is less than 0.25, and the peak gain within the resonating band is 6.4 dBi.


2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 943-953 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukesh Kumar Khandelwal ◽  
Binod Kumar Kanaujia ◽  
Santanu Dwari ◽  
Sachin Kumar ◽  
Anil Kumar Gautam

Asymmetric slits loaded irregular shaped microstrip patch antenna with three different ground structures is proposed. All three antennas show triple band characteristics. First antenna with regular ground plane resonates at 1.95, 2.4, and 4.90 GHz with good radiation characteristics and shows right-hand circular polarization at 1.95 GHz. 18.75% of compactness is achieved with triple band characteristics. Further, same patch is used with different defected ground structures. Second antenna resonates at 1.85, 2.4, and 4.85 GHz with suppressed cross-polarization level and antenna shows right-hand circular polarization at 1.85 and 4.85 GHz. Compactness is further improved to the value of 22.91%. The third antenna resonates at 1.95, 2.4, and 4.85 GHz with better gain and radiation characteristics and antenna shows right-hand circular polarization at 1.95 and 2.4 GHz. The small frequency ratio f2/f1 is achieved and the value of f2/f1 is 1.29 and 1.23 for second and third configuration, respectively. Proposed structures show right-hand circularly polarized with suppressed left-hand circularly polarized radiations and suitable for fixed mobile wireless communication applications. All structures are analyzed using Ansoft HFSS v.14 based on finite element method and measured results satisfy the simulated results.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manavalan Saravanan ◽  
Madihally Janardhana Srinivasa Rangachar

A single feed circularly polarized patch antenna is presented. The antenna consists of a rhombus-shaped slot incorporated in the radiating patch at its center. The antenna is designed to operate at 2.3 GHz band. The antenna achieves left-hand polarization or right-hand polarization based on the orientation of the slot in the radiating patch. The antenna parameters are synthesized using a high-frequency structure simulator and its characteristics are validated by the Agilent network analyzer (N9925A) and antenna test systems. The measured results obtained agree with simulated results and show that the antenna achieves −10 dB impedance bandwidth of 85 MHz (2.27 GHz–2.355 GHz) for left-hand polarization and 85 MHz (2.26 GHz–2.345 GHz) for right-hand polarization. The antenna gives a 3 dB axial ratio beamwidth of 95°(−35° ≤ AR ≤ 60°) for both left-hand polarization and right-hand polarization along with better 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth of 140° in the operating band. The antenna also achieves a good cross-polarization isolation of −17 dBic for both left-hand and right-hand polarization at its operating frequency. Hence, the antenna is best suited for modern wireless communication systems.


2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 2120-2146
Author(s):  
Jie Shen ◽  
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Han-min Liu ◽  
Jing Wang ◽  
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...  

<abstract> <p>This paper investigates a left-hand circularly polarized (LHCP) antenna and a right-hand circularly polarized (RHCP) antenna on LEO Satellite, which is based on the phase-tuning metasurface. We overcome its inherent limitations in size, weight and power, and designed a high-gain, ultra-lightweight, scalable antenna for small satellite communications. The antenna can generate continuous and large tunability of subwavelength, with low-Q resonators. The simulated and experimental results verify that different capacitance and inductance modes can be effectively generated by rotating the spiral arms of single-arm spiral antennas with corresponding degrees, which greatly simplify the feeding network. The maximum gain of the normal position within the angle of the uplink and downlink is 4~9 dBi higher than that of the ordinary polarized antenna. In addition, the design method proposed to this article is superior to the reference system in terms of impedance bandwidth, axial ratio bandwidth, and operation frequency. The performance achievements of this paper are implemented within the bandwidth of 3 MHz of uplink and downlink, such as impedance bandwidth is 3 MHz with impedance of 50, axial ratio bandwidth is 2.5 MHz, operation frequency of uplink is 240–243 MHz, downlink is 320 MHz and 401 MHz, and the voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) is less than 2 dB which is so called S parameter, the above parameters can meet the performance index design requirements.</p> </abstract>


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yohandri

A circularly polarized microstrip antenna for bi-static SAR onboard UAV has been investigated. The both senseof the circular polarization left-hand circularly polarized (LHCP) and right-hand circularly polarized (RHCP) arecan be achieved on experimental and simulation. The 2x2 sub array antenna operated in 1.176 (L-band) withnovel proximity synchronous feed method has been designed, fabricated, and evaluated to show the characteristic of the antenna. The measured result give the axial ratio bandwidth (&lt;3dB) of about 28 MHz (2%), whichconsistent with the simulated result of about 27 MHz (2%). These results satisfy the specification for our BiSARsystem installed onboard UAV.


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