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Low-Profile Wideband Circularly Polarized Array Antennas Using Integrated Half-Power Quadrature Power Divider. / Wen, Lehu; Gao, Steven; Luo, Qi; Hu, Wei; Sanz-Izquierdo, Benito; Yang, Xue-Xia.
In: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. PP, No. 99, 9755032, 11.04.2022, p. 1-1.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Low-Profile Wideband Circularly Polarized Array Antennas Using Integrated Half-Power Quadrature Power Divider
AU - Wen, Lehu
AU - Gao, Steven
AU - Luo, Qi
AU - Hu, Wei
AU - Sanz-Izquierdo, Benito
AU - Yang, Xue-Xia
PY - 2022/4/11
Y1 - 2022/4/11
N2 - Low-profile wideband circularly polarized (CP) array antennas using integrated half-power quadrature power divider (HP-QPD) are presented. A novel HP-QPD is first proposed as an important design concept for CP radiation. Detailed analyses show that the proposed HP-QPD can have half-power CP radiation and the remaining half-power transmission with equal-magnitude but quadrature phase difference. Therefore, it can be utilized for designing a 1×2 CP array antenna. Compared to the traditionally designed single-feed or dual-feed CP counterparts, this 1×2 array antenna can have more than four times wider axial ratio (AR) bandwidth with three CP modes and a simple feed network. This 1×2 array antenna was then designed, fabricated, and measured for performance verification. Both measured and simulated results show that this array antenna can have a wide overlapped impedance and AR bandwidth of 7.9% with a thin dielectric thickness of 0.031λ0. The 1×2 array antenna was further extended to a 1×8 linear array antenna for high gain CP radiation. Measured results show that unidirectional and symmetrical radiation patterns are achieved with high peak realized gain of 15.4 dBic, low profile, and simple feed network.
AB - Low-profile wideband circularly polarized (CP) array antennas using integrated half-power quadrature power divider (HP-QPD) are presented. A novel HP-QPD is first proposed as an important design concept for CP radiation. Detailed analyses show that the proposed HP-QPD can have half-power CP radiation and the remaining half-power transmission with equal-magnitude but quadrature phase difference. Therefore, it can be utilized for designing a 1×2 CP array antenna. Compared to the traditionally designed single-feed or dual-feed CP counterparts, this 1×2 array antenna can have more than four times wider axial ratio (AR) bandwidth with three CP modes and a simple feed network. This 1×2 array antenna was then designed, fabricated, and measured for performance verification. Both measured and simulated results show that this array antenna can have a wide overlapped impedance and AR bandwidth of 7.9% with a thin dielectric thickness of 0.031λ0. The 1×2 array antenna was further extended to a 1×8 linear array antenna for high gain CP radiation. Measured results show that unidirectional and symmetrical radiation patterns are achieved with high peak realized gain of 15.4 dBic, low profile, and simple feed network.
KW - Antenna arrays
KW - Wideband
KW - Broadband antennas
KW - Ports (computers)
KW - Microstrip
KW - Antenna measurements
KW - Linear antenna arrays
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9755032/
U2 - 10.1109/TAP.2022.3164885
DO - 10.1109/TAP.2022.3164885
M3 - Article
VL - PP
SP - 1
EP - 1
JO - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
JF - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
SN - 0018-926X
IS - 99
M1 - 9755032
ER -