Compact Cross Shaped Slit Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antenna for GNSS Applications

Author

Rashid, Danish ; Kumar, Sachin ; Kanaujia, B.K. ; Gautam, A.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Ambedkar Inst. of Adv. Commun. Technol. & Res., Delhi, India

fYear

2014

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

32

Abstract

A compact single feed circularly polarized micro strip antenna with cross shaped slits is proposed for GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) applications. In this paper, four cross shaped slits are embedded at the corners of a cross slot loaded square patch thus improving axial ratio bandwidth. In addition, five cross slots are cut on the ground plane for achieving better compactness and superior return loss. The proposed structure is about 60% compact in size when compared with the conventional micro strip antenna design. It has also been observed that the resonant frequency is highly dependent on length and width of the centred cross slot and embedded corner cross slits. The 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth achieved is 2.2%.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; microstrip antennas; satellite navigation; GNSS; Global Navigation Satellite System; compact cross shaped slit circularly polarized microstrip antenna; cross slot loaded square patch; Feeds; Loaded antennas; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Polarization; Slot antennas; Circular polarization; GNSS; cross slit; cross slot;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN), 2014 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6928-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICN.2014.18

Filename

7065437