Stripline-fed printed square spiral slot antennafor circular polarisation

Abstract

A novel design for a circularly-polarised printed square spiral slot antenna with a stripline feed is demonstrated. The printed slot antenna consists of a square spiral slot of ~1.25 turns, and a total slot length of approximately one free-space operating wavelength. By carefully trimming both ends of the square spiral slot, circular polarisation (CP) operation with a wide operating bandwidth can easily be achieved. A CP bandwidth of > 6% has been obtained.