• DocumentCode
    1436939
  • Title

    Global Design of an EBG Antenna and Meander-Line Polarizer for Circular Polarization

  • Author

    ARNAUD, Eric ; Chantalat, Regis ; Koubeissi, Majed ; Monediere, Thierry ; Rodes, Emmanuel ; Thevenot, Marc

  • Author_Institution
    OSA Dept., XLIM, Limoges, France
  • Volume
    9
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    7/2/1905 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    215
  • Lastpage
    218
  • Abstract
    This letter describes a comprehensive approach to design circularly polarized electromagnetic band-gap(EBG) antennas. Some solutions have already been proposed to that end, but they require the design to be started from scratch. With the proposed method, the circular polarization will be obtained through the use of a meander-line polarizer (MLP) located above an existing linearly polarized EBG antenna. Thanks to a global approach, a 20-dBi circularly polarized antenna, boasting an axial ratio (AR) lower than 1 dB over the 29.530 GHz frequency band, has been conceived, realized, and successfully measured.
  • Keywords
    antennas; design engineering; electromagnetic wave polarisation; microwave antennas; photonic band gap; EBG antenna; circular polarization; circularly polarized electromagnetic band-gap antennas; frequency 29.5 GHz to 30 GHz; global antenna design; meander-line polarizer; Circular polarization; electronic band-gap (EBG) antenna; meander-line polarizer (MLP);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1536-1225
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LAWP.2010.2045098
  • Filename
    5428825