Title :
Circularly polarised antenna with switchable polarisation sense
Author :
Boti, M. ; Dussopt, L. ; Laheurte, J.M.
Author_Institution :
Lab. d´´Electron. Antennes et Telecommun., Univ. de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France
fDate :
8/31/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors present the design of a wideband circularly polarised antenna with switchable polarisation sense. The basic antenna is a circularly polarised aperture coupled patch antenna with a slot excitation located along the diagonal of a rectangular patch. A second slot is added along the other diagonal and beam-lead pin diodes are inserted in both slots to allow a dual sense operation for a compact structure in a 4% CP bandwidth
Keywords :
beam-lead devices; electromagnetic wave polarisation; microstrip antennas; rectangular waveguides; CP bandwidth; aperture coupled patch antenna; beam-lead pin diodes; compact structure; dual sense operation; rectangular patch; slot excitation; switchable polarisation sense; wideband circularly polarised antenna;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20001098
