IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
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Novel Co-planar Waveguide (CPW)-Fed Small Antenna with Circular Polarization
Jaehyurk CHOISungjoon LIM
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2011 Volume E94.B Issue 7 Pages 2141-2144

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A planar circularly-polarized (CP) small antenna is proposed. To obtain a low profile configuration, a co-planar waveguide (CPW) structure is employed. Circular polarization is achieved using a curved stub that generates current distribution in a direction orthogonal to the current distribution from the patch. Using meander lines and a series gap capacitance, a 70% size reduction is achieved compared to a half-wavelength resonant antenna. To the best of the authors' knowledge, the proposed antenna is the smallest CP antenna using CPW technology. The measured 3dB axial ratio bandwidth is 8.3% from 3.83GHz to 4.16GHz, and a 1.6dBic gain and 89% efficiency are achieved.

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