TY - GEN
T1 - Circularly polarized conical-beam patch antenna with frequency agility
AU - Yang, Jhe Sheng
AU - Row, Jeen Sheen
PY - 2017/2/3
Y1 - 2017/2/3
N2 - A frequency reconfigurable design for circularly polarized antennas with conical radiation patterns is described. The design is based on a circular microstrip antenna that is operated at TM21 mode and excited by dual orthogonal feeds with a phase difference of 90°. To vary the resonant frequency of the antenna, several varactors are placed along the circumference of the circular radiating patch. According to the simulated results, it is found that the resonant frequency can be tuned from 1.55 to 2.9 GHz when the capacitance value of the varactors is decreased from 2 to 0 pF. Moreover, the antenna at each resonant frequency can provide an omnidirectional radiation pattern with good circular polarization performance and a return loss of less than 10 dB.
AB - A frequency reconfigurable design for circularly polarized antennas with conical radiation patterns is described. The design is based on a circular microstrip antenna that is operated at TM21 mode and excited by dual orthogonal feeds with a phase difference of 90°. To vary the resonant frequency of the antenna, several varactors are placed along the circumference of the circular radiating patch. According to the simulated results, it is found that the resonant frequency can be tuned from 1.55 to 2.9 GHz when the capacitance value of the varactors is decreased from 2 to 0 pF. Moreover, the antenna at each resonant frequency can provide an omnidirectional radiation pattern with good circular polarization performance and a return loss of less than 10 dB.
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U2 - 10.1109/APCAP.2016.7843099
DO - 10.1109/APCAP.2016.7843099
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85015306354
T3 - APCAP 2016 - 2016 IEEE 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Conference Proceedings
SP - 61
EP - 62
BT - APCAP 2016 - 2016 IEEE 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Conference Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 5th IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation, APCAP 2016
Y2 - 26 July 2016 through 29 July 2016
ER -