Compact Broadband Circularly Polarized Antenna With Parasitic Patches

A broadband circularly polarized (CP) antenna with compact size is proposed. The antenna is composed of a loop feeding structure which provides sequential phase, four driven patches, and four parasitic patches. The driven patches, which are capacitively coupled by the feeding loop, generate one CP mode due to the sequentially rotated structure and four parasitic patches are introduced to produce additional CP mode. By combining with the CP mode of the feeding loop, the axial ratio (AR) bandwidth is greatly broadened. An antenna prototype is fabricated to validate the simulated results. Experimental results show that the antenna achieves a broad impedance bandwidth of 19.5% from 5.13 to 6.24 GHz and a 3-dB AR bandwidth of 12.9% (5.38-6.12 GHz). In addition, the proposed antenna also has a flat gain within the operating frequency band and a compact size of 0.92 lambda(0)x0.92 lambda(0)x0.028 lambda(0) at 5.5 GHz.