A wideband 2×2 sequential-phase fed circularly polarized(CP)microstrip antenna array(MAA)with sequentially rotated elements is proposed.Firstly,the antenna element loaded with shorting pins is studied as compared...A wideband 2×2 sequential-phase fed circularly polarized(CP)microstrip antenna array(MAA)with sequentially rotated elements is proposed.Firstly,the antenna element loaded with shorting pins is studied as compared to the traditional counterpart.Then,a feeding network is designed to be connected together in a sequential rotation manner,resulting in forming a four-port network to allow symmetrical positioning of CP microstrip patch elements.After that,straight strips are added to the feeding network in order to increase the distance and reduce coupling between array elements.They also play a role in improving the impedance matching of the array.Finally,the proposed antenna array is designed and simulated.The results are presented that its impedance bandwidth is about 36.3%at 24.1~34.8 GHz for|S_(11)|<10 dB and axial-ratio(AR)bandwidth is about 20.4%at 24.2~29.7 GHz for AR【3 dB.Besides,a peak gain of 11.1 dBic is simulated over the operating frequency range,which is significantly improved compared to the classic and existing works.展开更多
基金This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.61801348 and 61971475University of Macao under Grant Nos.MYRG2017-00007-FST,MYRG2018-00073-FST,and CPG2020-00003-FSTState Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves under Contract K202031.
文摘A wideband 2×2 sequential-phase fed circularly polarized(CP)microstrip antenna array(MAA)with sequentially rotated elements is proposed.Firstly,the antenna element loaded with shorting pins is studied as compared to the traditional counterpart.Then,a feeding network is designed to be connected together in a sequential rotation manner,resulting in forming a four-port network to allow symmetrical positioning of CP microstrip patch elements.After that,straight strips are added to the feeding network in order to increase the distance and reduce coupling between array elements.They also play a role in improving the impedance matching of the array.Finally,the proposed antenna array is designed and simulated.The results are presented that its impedance bandwidth is about 36.3%at 24.1~34.8 GHz for|S_(11)|<10 dB and axial-ratio(AR)bandwidth is about 20.4%at 24.2~29.7 GHz for AR【3 dB.Besides,a peak gain of 11.1 dBic is simulated over the operating frequency range,which is significantly improved compared to the classic and existing works.
