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Low-cost low-sidelobe microstrip array with circular polarization

✍ Scribed by Xiao-Rong Tang; Shun-Shi Zhong; Zhu Sun; Jian-Jun Liu

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 215 KB
Volume: 50
Category: Article
ISSN: 0895-2477
DOI: 10.1002/mop.23687

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Abstract

A low‐cost low‐sidelobe microstrip array antenna with a symmetric main beam of circular polarization (CP) is introduced. The array antenna has a coplanar feed network to excite a Chebyshev current distribution in the horizontal direction and a uniform distribution in the vertical direction of a 4 × 3 elements array. The CP operation is realized by using the corner‐fed quasi‐square patch elements. Measured results show that the array has a sidelobe level (SLL) of −21 dB in the horizontal plane, the half‐power beamwidth of 27° for two main planes both and the axial ratio of below 3 dB within the main beam. Its return loss is less than −10dB for the impedance bandwidth of 40 MHz. Its measured gain reaches 13.9 dB at 2.55 GHz. It is a low‐cost low‐sidelobe design with thin profile, simple structure, CP operation, and symmetric main beam, suited for the radio frequency identification (RFID) readers and other wireless systems. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 50: 2384–2386, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.23687

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