{"title":"A Wideband Circularly Polarized Patch Antenna Using λ/4 and λ/2 Resonators","authors":"Qiong‐Sen Wu, Xiao Zhang, Lei Zhu","doi":"10.1109/RFID-TA.2018.8552813","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A wideband circularly polarized (CP) patch antenna with enhanced axial ratio (AR) bandwidth via co-design of feeding network is proposed in this paper. One$\\lambda$ /4 resonator and one $\\lambda$ /2 resonator are introduced and coupled in proximity to two orthogonal points of a square patch radiator to excite two orthogonal modes. These two resonators not only function as impedance matching elements to achieve equal magnitude of two orthogonal modes in a wide frequency band, but also provide the required 90° phase difference. In this way, two minima in the AR response appear, resulting in extended AR bandwidth. Simulated results demonstrate that 2% 3-dB AR bandwidth is achieved on a low profile of 0.014 $\\lambda_{0}$.","PeriodicalId":293800,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology & Application (RFID-TA)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2018 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology & Application (RFID-TA)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFID-TA.2018.8552813","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A wideband circularly polarized (CP) patch antenna with enhanced axial ratio (AR) bandwidth via co-design of feeding network is proposed in this paper. One$\lambda$ /4 resonator and one $\lambda$ /2 resonator are introduced and coupled in proximity to two orthogonal points of a square patch radiator to excite two orthogonal modes. These two resonators not only function as impedance matching elements to achieve equal magnitude of two orthogonal modes in a wide frequency band, but also provide the required 90° phase difference. In this way, two minima in the AR response appear, resulting in extended AR bandwidth. Simulated results demonstrate that 2% 3-dB AR bandwidth is achieved on a low profile of 0.014 $\lambda_{0}$.