New circularly-polarised conical-beam microstrip patch antenna array for short-range communication systems

✍ Scribed by D. Zhou; R. A. Abd-Alhameed; C. H. See; N. J. McEwan; P. S. Excell

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 344 KB
• Volume: 51
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-2477
• DOI: 10.1002/mop.23956

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A circularly‐polarized conical‐beam microstrip patch antenna, with a coplanar conductor pattern, is realized as an array of a number of stripline‐fed slotted patches whose diagonal corners are cut off and whose feedlines meet at a central point. Prototypes of such an antenna array with four patches are studied and tested. The results show reasonable agreement between measured and theoretical results. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 51: 78–81, 2009; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.23956