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Broadband Circularly Polarized Filtering Antennas

Dong, Yazhou, Gao, Steven, Luo, Qi, Wen, Le-Hu, Mao, Chun-Xu, Dong, Shi-Wei, Li, Xiaojun, Wei, Gao, Wen, Geyi, Geng, Youling, and others. (2018) Broadband Circularly Polarized Filtering Antennas. IEEE Access, 6 . pp. 76302-76312. ISSN 2169-3536. (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2883494) (KAR id:73276)

Abstract

This paper consists of two parts. The first part presents a review of the recent development in broadband circularly polarized filtering antennas. The second part presents a novel design of broadband integrated filtering antenna based on eighth-mode SIW (EMSIW) resonators for rectenna applications. This work has three main novel contributions. First, by adjusting the external quality factors and coupling coefficients of the resonators in this filtering antenna, optimum input impedance with a complex value can be realized within the filtering antenna. Thus there is no need for an external impedance matching network, which is usually required between the antenna and the rectifying circuits; Second, compared with traditional microstrip resonators, high-Q EMSIW cavities are used to increase antenna gain; third, the coupling gap between the EMSIW resonators also acts as the feeding structure of the radiator. So the feeding structures are all on the middle layer. The ground plane on the back side is a complete structure without any defects. This novel structure design improves front-to-back ratio to enhance the antenna receiving efficiency. To validate this method, two C-band circularly polarized integrated filtering antennas with an input impedance of 50 $\Omega $ and complex impedance are designed, simulated, and fabricated. The measured results show that the operating frequency bandwidth of the proposed antennas is more than 14.5% at C-band with the gain above 8 dBi. The 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth is larger than 8.5% and the front-to-back ratio is higher than 18 dB. Moreover, the proposed antenna with complex impedance is conjugate matched with the input impedance of a specific rectifying circuit at 5.8 GHz and harmonics suppression at the second-harmonic frequency is achieved.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2883494
Uncontrolled keywords: Broadband antenna, circularly polarized antenna, impedance match, filtering antenna, rectenna
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts
Depositing User: Steven Gao
Date Deposited: 29 Mar 2019 15:17 UTC
Last Modified: 01 Dec 2021 15:49 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/73276 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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