A Compact Circularly Polarized Crossed Dipole Antenna with Wide Bandwidth using Split Ring Resonator and Parasitic Patches

Abstract

A new compact broadband circularly polarized (CP) crossed dipole antenna using split ring resonator (SRR) and parasitic patches are presented. The proposed antenna is mainly composed of two orthogonal strip dipoles, two 90∘ phase delay lines, four SRRs, and four parasitic patches. The combination of the orthogonal strip dipoles and the delay lines forms a crossed dipole as the main CP radiator. The well-designed SRR can extend the current path and improve the current distribution of high-frequency without increasing the size of the antenna, thereby reducing the size of the antenna and increasing the axial ratio (AR) bandwidth of the high-frequency. The introduction of parasitic patches can improve the current distribution between the upper and lower cut-off frequency points of the bandwidth, and make up for the defects of the insufficient bandwidth of the crossed dipole and the SRR, thereby realizing broadband CP radiation. To verify the antenna, a physical prototype is fabricated. The measured results show that the impedance bandwidth (IBW) of 69.1% (1.38-2.84 GHz), and a wide AR bandwidth of 57.7% (1.43-2.59 GHz). In addition, the designed antenna achieves a stable gain in the working band and a certain band-edge selectivity. Such a single-fed, simple structure and the wideband CP antenna is an excellent candidate for communication systems such as ISM (2.4 GHz), WiBro (2.3-2.39 GHz)and Inmarsat.