Wideband Single-Fed Circularly Polarized Stacked Patch Antenna With L-Shaped Stub

Authors

  • Wen Li College of Information and Communication Engineering Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, China
  • Wei Xue College of Information and Communication Engineering Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, China
  • Yingsong Li The Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing, Ministry of Education Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui, 230000, China
  • Xiang Xiong College of Information and Communication Engineering Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, China
  • Kwok L. Chung School of Computing Science and Engineering Huizhou University, Huizhou, 516007, China
  • Zhixiang Huang The Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing, Ministry of Education Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui, 230000, China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/2022.ACES.J.371208

Keywords:

circularly polarized (CP), L-shaped stub, patch antenna, wideband antenna

Abstract

A wideband single-fed circularly polarized (CP) stacked patch antenna with an L-shaped stub is presented. The CP antenna is made up of the bottom gradient microstrip transmission line, middle driven patch and top square radiation patch. The driven patch with an L-shaped stub and opening slot can achieve a wideband CP radiation which is different from a conventional patch. The presented CP stacked patch antenna maintains good directional radiation, while featuring wideband CP radiation. The final tested results indicate that the presented CP antenna has significant performance with a −10 -dB impedance bandwidth of 42.1% (4.26-6.53 GHz), a 3-dB AR bandwidth of 26.0% (4.36-5.66 GHz) and broadside peak gain of 8.6 dBic. Moreover, the fifth-generation (5G) N79 band (4.4-5.0 GHz) and 5G wireless local area network (WLAN) band (5.15-5.35 GHz) can be covered by the operating bandwidth of the presented CPantenna.

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Author Biographies

Wen Li, College of Information and Communication Engineering Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, China

Wen Li was born in Shandong, China. He received his M.S. degree in Qingdao University of Technology, Shandong, China, in 2020. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering at the Harbin Engineering University, China. His current research interests include circularly polarized antennas and MIMO antennas.

Wei Xue, College of Information and Communication Engineering Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, China

Wei Xue received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Communication and Information Systems from Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China, in 1995 and 2001, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia, in 2007. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Harbin Engineering University. His current research interests include underwater and underground current field communications, efficient spectrum modeling, and simulation.

Yingsong Li, The Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing, Ministry of Education Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui, 230000, China

Yingsong Li received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Information Engineering, and M.S. degree in Electromagnetic Field and Microwave Technology from Harbin Engineering University, 2006 and 2011, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from both Kochi University of Technology (KUT), Japan and Harbin Engineering University (HEU), China in 2014. Since March 2022 he has been a full Professor at the School of Electronic and Information Engineering at Anhui University. From 2014 to 2022 he was a full Professor at HEU and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Davis from March 2016 to March 2017, a visiting Professor at the University of York, UK in 2018, and a visiting Professor at the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) and KUT. Since 2018, he has held a visiting professorship at the School of Information of KUT. He is a Fellow of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society, and is also a senior member of the Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) and IEEE. He has authored and coauthored about 300 journal and conference papers in various areas of electrical and information engineering. His current research interests include signal processing, adaptive filters, metasurface designs and microwaveantennas.

Dr. Li served as an Area Editor of AEÜ-International Journal of Electronics and Communications from 2017 to 2020, he is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access, the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal (ACES) Journal, the Alexandria Engineering Journal and Electromagnetic Science. He was 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, 2019 Cross Strait Quad-regional Radio Science and Wireless Technology Conference (2019 CSQRWC). He acts as a reviewer for numerous IEEE, IET, Elsevier and other international journals and conferences.

Kwok L. Chung, School of Computing Science and Engineering Huizhou University, Huizhou, 516007, China

Kwok L. Chung (Ph.D., Senior Member, IEEE) was a research professor and a supervisor of Ph.D. students with Qingdao University of Technology (QUT) from Dec. 2005 to Jan. 2021. He was a Director of Civionics Research Laboratory at QUT, where he led a cross-disciplinary research team for structural health monitoring. In April 2021, he joined Huizhou University as a distinguished professor. He has authored and coauthored about 180 publications [science citation index (SCI) and engineering index (EI)] in various areas of electrical and civil engineering. His current research interests include passive wireless sensors, cement-based materials design and characterization, clothing antennas, and intelligent reconfigurable surfaces.

Prof. Chung has been classified as the world’s top 2 % scientists in the 2020 and 2021 lists released by Stanford University. He is the Founding Chair of the IEEE Qingdao AP/MTT/COM joint chapter (CN10879) with Beijing Section. He has been an Associate Editor of IEEE ACCESS and an Associate Editor of ELSEVIER ALEXANDRIA ENGINEERING JOURNAL since 2016 and 2020, respectively. He is an active reviewer for numerous international journals from IEEE, Elsevier, IOP science, and many others.

Zhixiang Huang, The Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing, Ministry of Education Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui, 230000, China

Zhixiang Huang received his BS degree in Statistic and Probability and Ph.D. in Electromagnetic Field and Microwave Technology from Anhui University in 2002 and 2007, respectively. He is a Lecturer of Anhui University from 2007 to 2008 and is promoted to Professor in 2008, and is a visiting scholar in Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, from 2010 to 2011. Currently, he is a full Professor and the dean of the School of Electronic Information Engineering of Anhui University, founder of Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Environmental

Sensing of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, director of the Young Scientists Club of Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), member of the Youth Working Committee of CIE. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Young Talent Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2018 and the Chang Jiang Scholars Program of Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China in 2022. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He has more than 100 academic papers in peer-reviewed international/national journals. His current interests include theoretical and computational in electromagnetics and Microwave/RF circuit design, and multiphysics modeling.

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Published

2022-12-31

How to Cite

[1]
W. Li, W. Xue, Y. Li, X. Xiong, K. L. . Chung, and Z. . Huang, “Wideband Single-Fed Circularly Polarized Stacked Patch Antenna With L-Shaped Stub”, ACES Journal, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 1240–1248, Dec. 2022.

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2022: Vol 37 Iss 12

Section

Antennas, Metasurfaces, and Testing Methodologies for 5G/6G Communication