A Circularly Polarized Dielectric Resonator Antenna Based on Quasi-Self-Complementary Metasurface

Abstract

In this communication, a circularly polarized (CP) dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) based on quasi-self-complementary metasurface (MS) has been proposed. Due to the quasi-self-complementary characteristic of the proposed MS, the phase difference of the transmission coefficients between two orthogonal linear polarizations is 90° in the frequency band from 25.5 to 26.5 GHz. The DRA with the proposed MS can realize the transformation from linear polarization to circular polarization at 25.6–25.99 GHz. The proposed MS significantly increases the gain and CP bandwidth of the DRA. The working bandwidth of the proposed antenna is included in the New Radio FR2 frequency band totally, which is considered as the follow-up expansion frequency of fifth-generation (5G) communication. The proposed MS-based antenna has realized the linear-to-circular polarization transformation in millimeter frequency band without additional substrate, which has not been researched yet.