Cross polarization ratio analysis of circular polarized patch antenna

Cross polarization ratio (CPR) analysis can be used to determine the quality of circular polarization of an antenna as compared to the commonly used axial ratio (AR) analysis. The analysis is independent of E-field left and right polarity measurement which requires two circular polarized reference antennas of left and right. Through CPR, the quality of circular polarization of an antenna can be measured from a reference linear polarity antenna. A low complexity 2.4 GHz circular polarized truncated corner patch antenna is designed and fabricated on printed circuit board (PCB) to show the simple process to analyse circular polarization quality of the antenna. Simulation result is compared to the theoretical considerations and measurement of ratio and E-field results.