Abstract
A novel wire-loop antenna is introduced for circular polarization. By introducing a small gap at the middle of two nonradiating sides of a one-wavelength square wire loop, a 90/spl deg/ time-phase difference between the currents on the other two radiating sides can be achieved. Then by twisting the square loop to make the radiating sides orthogonal the necessary conditions are satisfied for circularly polarized radiation. The antenna yields nearly ideally circular polarization at broadside as well as excellent input impedance properties near the design frequency. The radiation pattern has a broad beamwidth and good rotational symmetry about the axis. For a demonstrator operating at 1 GHz, a 3-dB axial ratio was maintained over /spl plusmn/30/spl deg/. The mechanism of circular polarization is analyzed based on numerical simulation. Experimental results are presented to verify the theoretical predictions made.
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