Compact Broadband Circularly Polarized Slot Antenna Using Two Linked Elliptical Slots for C-Band Applications

Abstract

A compact broadband circularly polarized elliptical slot antenna (CPESA) composed of two linked elliptical slots is presented. In order to realize the proposed CP antenna, two rectangular stubs are embedded in the feedline structure to excite two orthogonal E vectors. By embedding two rectangular stubs in the feedline structure and removing of four rectangular slits from the ground plane, the return loss and the axial-ratio (AR) bandwidths are noticeably increased. The designed CPESA with the compact size of 20 × 20 × 1 mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sup> operates over the frequency band between 4.3-8 GHz (60%) for and exhibits a 40% (4.3-6.5 GHz) CP bandwidth. Throughout this letter, the design process of the proposed antenna is presented and discussed in detail .