Title :
A circularly polarized patch antenna and DRA hybrid
Author :
Sahu, Akanksha ; Panda, Asit K.
Author_Institution :
ECE Dept., Nat. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Berhampur, India
Abstract :
This paper investigates the effect of a metamaterial superstrate on a single-feed circularly polarized microstrip patch antenna (SFCP-MPA) using CAD simulations. Simultaneous enhancement on antenna gain (up to 3dB), impedance bandwidth (BWZ) and axial ratio bandwidth (BWAR) are observed as well as multi-frequency operations at 5.125 GHz, 11.34 GHz 12.43GHz. Also it is observed that the invisible first harmonic becomes prominent and visible. Besides, the result also suggest that the Superstrate acts as a DRA (at 12.43GHz).
Keywords :
CAD; metamaterial antennas; microstrip antennas; polarisation; CAD simulation; DRA hybrid; axial ratio bandwidth; circularly polarized patch antenna; frequency 5.125 GHz to 12.43 GHz; impedance bandwidth; metamaterial superstrate; single-feed circularly polarized microstrip patch antenna; Antenna radiation patterns; Magnetic materials; Metamaterials; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Permeability; CP antenan; DRA; Metamaterial;
Conference_Titel :
Antenna Week (IAW), 2011 Indian
Conference_Location :
Kolkata
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1456-6
DOI :
10.1109/IndianAW.2011.6264906