Broadband CPW-Fed Circularly Polarized Square Slot Antenna with Arc-Shaped and Inverted-L Grounded Strips
Keywords:
Axial ratio (AR), broadband, circularly polarized (CP), square slot antennaAbstract
This paper presents a new wideband circularly polarized square slot antenna (CPSSA) with a coplanar waveguide (CPW) feed. The proposed antenna is composed of two arc-shaped and inverted-L grounded strips around opposite and mirror corners of the square slot. In this antenna the impedance bandwidth and the axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW) are increased compared to the previous CPSSA structures. For the optimized antenna prototype, the measured 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth is 76 % (3 GHz - 6.7 GHz) and the measured VSWR < 2 impedance bandwidth is as large as 108 % (3 GHz - 10.1 GHz). Throughout this paper, the improvement process of the axial ratio (AR) and S11 properties are presented and discussed in detail.
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