A Dual-Mode Quadrature-Fed Wideband Circularly Polarized Dielectric Resonator Antenna

Abstract

In this letter, a rectangular dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) structure fed by two vertical strips with quadrature in phase is studied. Both the fundamental TE <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">111</sub> and the higher order TE <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">113</sub> modes can be simultaneously excited to generate a wideband circular polarization. The measured 10-dB impedance bandwidth is 32.8% from 2.7 to 3.76 GHz, under which the axial ratio is less than 4 dB. The radiation pattern and antenna gain are also studied.