An air-supported wideband circularly polarized patch antenna

Author

Zeb, Basit Ali ; Meincke, Peter

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Air Univ., Islamabad, Pakistan

fYear

2009

fDate

27-29 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

427

Lastpage

429

Abstract

An air-supported circularly polarized square patch antenna with three dimensional (3D) suspended feeding strips is designed. With 3D feeding strips, and the use of air as dielectric, large impedance bandwidth is achieved. A microstrip feeding network is designed to excite the patch antenna in phase quadrature. Radiation pattern measurement results verify the design of the proposed feeding network and the air-supported patch antenna.

Keywords

antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; broadband antennas; electric impedance; electromagnetic wave polarisation; microstrip antennas; 3D suspended feeding strips; air-supported patch antenna; air-supported wideband circularly polarized square patch antenna; impedance bandwidth; microstrip feeding network; phase quadrature; radiation pattern measurement; Antenna feeds; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Impedance; Microstrip antenna arrays; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Polarization; Patch antennas; circular polarization; microstrip feeding network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave, Antenna, Propagation and EMC Technologies for Wireless Communications, 2009 3rd IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4076-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MAPE.2009.5355651

Filename

5355651