Design of circularly-polarized high-gain green antenna

Author

Horng-Dean Chen ; Jing-Lun Jheng ; Yi-Ching Chen ; Yao Min Tseng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Optoelectron. & Commun. Eng., Nat. Kaohsiung Normal Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

fYear

2014

fDate

2-5 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

527

Lastpage

528

Abstract

A circularly-polarized high-gain green antenna using a solar panel as a frequency selective surface for Fabry-Perot cavity is proposed. First, the transmission and reflection coefficients of a square solar cell were analyzed for predicting the operating frequency of a green antenna with circular polarization and high gain operation. Next, the green antenna was constructed, and it consists of a square solar panel with 6 × 6 solar cells and a circularly polarized patch antenna backed with a metal ground plate. The achieved impedance bandwidth of the proposed green antenna is 154 MHz (2.928 ~ 3.082 GHz), and the CP bandwidth is 76 MHz (2.907 ~ 2.983 GHz). The antenna gain within the CP bandwidth is 13.0 ~ 13.9 dBic.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot resonators; UHF antennas; electromagnetic wave polarisation; frequency selective surfaces; microstrip antennas; polarisation; solar cell arrays; CP bandwidth; Fabry-Perot cavity; antenna gain; bandwidth 154 MHz; bandwidth 76 MHz; circularly-polarized high-gain green patch antenna; frequency selective surface; impedance bandwidth; metal ground plate; reflection coefficient; solar cell; solar panel; transmission coefficient; Bandwidth; Cavity resonators; Directive antennas; Frequency selective surfaces; Green products; Photovoltaic cells; Fabry-Perot cavity; Green antenna; circular polarization; frequency selective surface; solar panel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), 2014 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kaohsiung

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISANP.2014.7026758

Filename

7026758