Abstract
A hybrid perturbation scheme is used in this article to achieve wide axial ratio (AR) bandwidth and beamwidth from circularly polarized (CP) microstrip patch–ring antennas using a single probe feed. Perturbations in the diagonal corners of a square ring and a square patch arranged in a stacked configuration are introduced to achieve the circular polarization. First, an enhanced AR bandwidth is obtained when a combination of a square ring and a square patch with negative perturbations is used as parasitic and driven elements, respectively. Next, circular polarization with wider AR bandwidth, wider beamwidth, and lower cross-polarization is obtained when a combination of a driven square patch with positive perturbation and a parasitic square ring with negative perturbations, termed as hybrid perturbations, is used. This antenna has a footprint suitable for small satellite applications (e.g., CubeSats) and its operating frequencies cover the allocated S-band downlink frequencies of NASA Deep Space Network and NASA Near Earth Network.
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