A mode-combination-based polarization-reconfigurable antenna
Li Ran
School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
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School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
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Shen-Yun Wang
School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Research Center of Applied Electromagnetics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
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Shen-Yun Wang, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorLi Ran
School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Search for more papers by this authorDan-Ping Yang
School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
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Shen-Yun Wang
School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Research Center of Applied Electromagnetics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Correspondence
Shen-Yun Wang, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorFunding information: Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
Abstract
In this article, a novel polarization-reconfigurable antenna based on the theory of linearly polarized (LP) modes combination is proposed. The antenna can electronically alter its polarization states between left-hand circular polarization, right-hand circular polarization and continuous linear polarization. A corner-truncated square patch with two isolated aperture-coupling feeds is used as the main radiator. By independently exciting the two feeding ports, the proposed antenna can work in two isolated orthogonal LP modes at 2.45 GHz, respectively. By simultaneously exciting the two feeding ports with different combination of amplitudes and phases, two circularly polarized (CP) modes and LP modes polarized at arbitrary azimuth can be obtained. The simulated and measured gains for all the polarization states are 7.3 dB at 2.5 GHz. The –10 dB impedance bandwidth ranging from 2.35 to 2.58 GHz is fully overlapped for all the polarization states.
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