Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antennas: Prof. Girish Kumar
Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antennas: Prof. Girish Kumar
Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antennas: Prof. Girish Kumar
gkumar@ee.iitb.ac.in
(022) 2576 7436
Circularly Polarized (CP) Dual Feed MSA
(a) (b)
(a)
(b)
SMSA with (a) offset feed and (b) 3-dB 2-branch line coupler
CP Suspended CMSA with Dual Feed
Frequency Range: 2.7-2.9GHz (7%)
Patch diameter = 52mm
Ground plane diameter = 90mm
Substrate - RT Duroid 5870
(r = 2.33, h = 0.8 mm, tanδ= 0.0012)
4mm
Foam Via
Feed
Ground Plane
CP Suspended CMSA – S11 and AR
L2
L L L
(a) Elliptical MSA and CMSA with (b) two notches, (c) two stubs,
and (d) a rectangular slot in the centre.
(a) (b)
(a) SMSA with two pairs of unequal slits and
(b)SMSA with corners chopped and four bent slits
Application – GPS (1575 + 10 MHz) antenna, RHCP
Compact CP CMSA with Slits
(a) (b)
(a)
(b)
(a) Three gap-coupled and (b) five gap-coupled
square patches with orthogonal feeds for CP
Stacked Broadband CP SMSA
(b)
(a)
(a) Top and (b) side views of two stacked square patches
Aperture- Coupled Broadband CP MSA
(a)
(b)
(a) Square patch with two orthogonal cross slots of
unequal lengths and (b) its measured input
impedance plot.
CP Array using Linearly Polarized Elements
(a) (b)
(a) Sequentially rotated array of two CP circular elements
and (b) superimposed CP response of the two elements
4-Elements Sequentially Rotated Array using CP MSAs
2 × 4 arrays of circular
patches with two notches:
conventional and
sequentially rotated.