Gain-Enhanced Wideband Circularly Polarized Antenna with a Non-Uniform Metamaterial Reflector

Authors

  • Bosong Qiu Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150009, China
  • Yinfeng Xia Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150009, China
  • Yingsong Li Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing Ministry of Education, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/2022.ACES.J.370304

Keywords:

Circular polarization, gain enhancement, broadband antenna, non-uniform metamaterial reflector

Abstract

In this paper, a gain-enhanced wideband circularly polarized (CP) antenna with a non-uniform metamaterial (NUM) reflector is presented, which is composed of a modified wide S-shaped slot antenna and a NUM reflector. To achieve a wideband CP operation, a modified S-shaped slot is fed by an L-shaped microstrip feedline that ends with a triangular patch to improve axial ratio (AR) bandwidth and impedance bandwidth. A NUM reflector composed of rectangular metal units with different sizes is employed and its units are unevenly distributed. The proposed CP antenna is designed, fabricated, and measured. The measured results show that the impedance bandwidth covers 3.0-6.0 GHz (66.7%) and a 3-dB AR bandwidth covers 3.1-5.6 GHz (57.4%). A peak gain of 6.0 dBi is obtained at 3.8 GHz by using the reflector. The advantages of the proposed antenna are the simple structure, high gain, and broad CP bandwidth.

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Author Biographies

Bosong Qiu, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150009, China

Bosong Qiu was born in Panjin, Liaoning. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China, in 2019 and 2022, respectively.

His research interest mainly focuses on circular polarized antenna designs.

Yinfeng Xia, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150009, China

Yinfeng Xia was born in Huanggang Hubei. He received the B.S. degree in communication engineering from Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China, in 2017. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering with Harbin Engineering University.

His research interest mainly focuses on low-frequency antenna design, circular polarization antenna design, and microwave circuits.

Yingsong Li, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing Ministry of Education, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China

Yingsong Li received the B.S. degree in electrical and information engineering and the M.S. degree in electromagnetic field and microwave technology from Harbin Engineering University (HEU), Harbin, China, in 2006 and 2011, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree from both the Kochi University of Technology (KUT), Kami, Japan and HEU in 2014.

He has been a Full Professor with the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei, China, since March 2022. He was a Professor with HEU from 2014 to 2022, a visiting Scholar with the University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA, from March 2016 to March 2017, a visiting Professor with the University of York, York, U.K., in 2018, and a visiting Professor with Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), Vladivostok, Russia and KUT. He has been holding the Visiting Professor position of School of Information, KUT since 2018. He is a Postdoc with the Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, from 2016 to 2020. He is currently a Fellow of Applied computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES Fellow), and he is also a Senior Member of Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) and a Senior Member of IEEE. He has authored and coauthored about 300 journal and conference papers in various areas of electrical engineering. His current research interests include remote sensing, underwater communications, signal processing, adaptive filters, metasurface designs, and microwave antennas.

Dr. Li serves as an Area Editor for AEU¨U¨-International Journal of Electronics and Communications from 2017 to 2020, and he is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access, Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal (ACES Journal), and Alexandria Engineering Journal. He is the TPC Co-Chair of the 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Electromagnetics (iWEM 2019-2020), 2019 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Electronic Information and Communication Technology (ICEICT 2019), 2019 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Symposium-China, and 2019 Cross Strait Quad-regional Radio Science and Wireless Technology Conference (2019 CSQRWC) and the TPC Chair of ICEICT 2021-2022. He is also a General Co-Chair of ICEICT 2020 and a General Chair of IEEE 9th International Conference on Computer Science and Network Technology (ICCSNT 2021) and ICCSNT 2022. He also serves as a Session Chair or Organizer for many international and domestic conferences, including the WCNC, AP-S, ACES, etc. He acts as a Reviewer for numerous IEEE, IET, Elsevier, and other international journals.

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Published

2022-03-31

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B. . Qiu, Y. . Xia, and Y. . Li, “Gain-Enhanced Wideband Circularly Polarized Antenna with a Non-Uniform Metamaterial Reflector”, ACES Journal, vol. 37, no. 03, pp. 281–286, Mar. 2022.

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2022: Vol 37 Iss 3

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