Abstract
A simple, compact sickle-shaped printed antenna with a slotted ground plane is designed and developed for broadband circularly polarized (CP) radiation. The sickle-shaped radiator with a tapered feed line and circular slotted square ground plane are utilized to realize the wideband CP radiation feature. With optimized dimensions of 0.29λ × 0.29λ × 0.012λ at 2.22 GHz frequency for the realized antenna parameters, the measured results display that the antenna has a 10 dB impedance bandwidth of 7.70 GHz (126.85%; 2.22–9.92 GHz) and a 3 dB axial ratio (AR) bandwidth of 2.64 GHz (73.33%; 2.28–4.92 GHz). The measurement agrees well with simulation, which proves an excellent circularly polarized property. For verification, the mechanism of band improvement and circular polarization are presented, and the parametric study is carried out. Since, the proposed antenna is a simple design structure with broad impedance and AR bandwidth, which is a desirable feature as a candidate for various wireless communication systems. Because of the easy printed structure and scaling the dimension with broadband CP characteristics, the realized antenna does incorporate in a number of CP wireless communication applications.
Highlights
Polarized (CP) microstrip antennas have been popularly used in various contemporary wireless communications systems, such as for satellite communication, WLAN
Systems utilizing circularly polarized (CP) antennas in both transmitter and receiver ends have observed they improved upon cross polarization discrimination and present better immunity to multipath propagation
Dielectric resonator antennas (DRAs) [3,4,5], cross dipole antennas [6,7,8,9] and magneto-electric dipole antennas [10,11,12] was designed for broadband
Summary
Polarized (CP) microstrip antennas have been popularly used in various contemporary wireless communications systems, such as for satellite communication, WLAN The 61.96% CP bandwidth has been attained with an inverted asymmetric arm L-shaped microstrip and slotted ground plane, but the dimensions of the antenna were large [22]. An inverted-L grounded strip with two asymmetric T-shaped feed lines was stated to attain 60% impedance and AR bandwidth [29]. An antipodal Y strip with a square slot antenna [31], cross-shaped printed antenna with extended ground plane [32], parasitic strips with a partial ground plane [33], CPW-fed open loop [34] and compact wideband directional CP antenna [35] have been presented to realize wide impedance and AR bandwidth. We are scaling the dimension to check the impedance and CP property of the realized antenna
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