Wideband Circularly Polarized Fabry-Perot Antenna [Antenna Applications Corner]

Qin, Fan, Gao, Steven, Wei, Gao, Luo, Qi, Mao, Chunxu, Gu, Chao, Xu, Jiadong, Li, Jianzhou (2015) Wideband Circularly Polarized Fabry-Perot Antenna [Antenna Applications Corner]. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, 57 (5). pp. 127-135. ISSN 1045-9243. (doi:10.1109/MAP.2015.2470678) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:53634)

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Abstract

A broadband and high-gain, circularly polarized Fabry-Perot (CPFP) antenna is presented in this article. This antenna employs a two-layer partially reflective surface (PRS) with positive reflective phase gradient, which can improve the 3-dB gain bandwidth of Fabry-Perot (FP) antennas effectively. To generate a circularly polarized (CP) wave, a wideband CP microstrip patch is designed to serve as the feeding source. To validate this concept, an antenna prototype at X band is fabricated. The measurement results show that this antenna achieves a 3-dB gain bandwidth of 28.3% from 8.8 to 11.7 GHz with the peak gain of 14.7 dBi. Within this frequency range, the axial ratio (AR) is below 3 dB and the reflection coefficient is lower than -10 dB.

Item Type:	Article
DOI/Identification number:	10.1109/MAP.2015.2470678
Uncontrolled keywords:	Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Broadband communication; Fabry-Perot; Reflector antennas
Subjects:	T Technology
Institutional Unit:	Schools > School of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics > Engineering
Former Institutional Unit:	Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts
Depositing User:	Tina Thompson
Date Deposited:	07 Jan 2016 12:19 UTC
Last Modified:	20 May 2025 10:40 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/53634 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Gao, Steven.

Creator's ORCID:	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7402-9223
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