Title : 
Circular polarization from a ZOR patch-coupled rectangular ring-mushroom antenna
         
        
            Author : 
Yoo, Seongryong ; Kahng, Sungtek ; Jang, Geonho ; Anguera, J. ; Yang, In-gyu
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Info. & Telecomm. Eng., Univ. of Incheon, Incheon, South Korea
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper presents how to generate a circular polarization in a new microstrip Zeroth Order Resonance(ZOR) metamaterial antenna. The ZOR antenna initially has a linear polarization from a coaxial fed central patch whose edges are coupled to a rectangular ring mushroom. It is a low-profile structure with the -1st resonance as the Left-Handed(LH) region, the ZOR, and the positive resonance as the Right-Handed(RH) region. This antenna is provided with an inclined slot in the ground to form a circular polarization at the LH region, while keeping the frequency response of the antenna´s return loss. So the axial ratio over the LH frequency of interest is given to show the circular polarization together with the return loss and radiation pattern to present the design result as is aimed.
         
        
            Keywords : 
antenna radiation patterns; frequency response; metamaterial antennas; metamaterials; microstrip antennas; polarisation; resonance; ZOR; antenna radiation pattern; circular polarization; frequency response; left-handed region; linear polarization; metamaterial antenna; microstrip antenna; patch-coupled antenna; rectangular ring mushroom antenna; right-handed region; zeroth order resonance; Antenna radiation patterns; Equivalent circuits; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Polarization;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Rome
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4577-0250-1