A Wideband Circularly Polarized Antenna with a Multiple-Circular-Sector Dielectric Resonator

Author: Trinh-Van Son   Yang Youngoo   Lee Kang-Yoon   Hwang Keum Cheol  

Publisher: MDPI

E-ISSN: 1424-8220|16|11|1849-1849

ISSN: 1424-8220

Source: Sensors, Vol.16, Iss.11, 2016-11, pp. : 1849-1849

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Abstract

This paper presents the design of a wideband circularly polarized antenna using a multiple-circular-sector dielectric resonator (DR). The DR is composed of twelve circular-sector DRs with identical central angles of 30 but with different radii. A genetic algorithm is utilized to optimize the radii of the twelve circular-sector DRs to realize wideband circular polarization. The proposed antenna is excited using an aperture-coupled feeding technique through a narrow rectangular slot etched onto the ground plane. An antenna prototype is experimentally verified. The measured −10 dB reflection and 3 dB axial ratio (AR) bandwidths are 31.39% (1.88–2.58 GHz) and 19.30% (2.06–2.50 GHz), respectively, covering the operating bands of the following systems: UMTS-2100 (2.145 GHz), WiMAX (2.3 GHz), and Wi-Fi (2.445 GHz). A measured peak gain of 7.65 dBic at 2.225 GHz and gain variation of less than 2.70 dBic within the measured 3 dB AR bandwidth are achieved. In addition, the radiation patterns of the proposed antenna are presented and discussed.