Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)1809-1811
Abstract
The paper presents an omni-directional circularly polarized (CP) helical antenna
with an inductive feeding structure. The antenna is comprised of a printed helix with six arms on
a thin rolled substrate and a feeding loop, which acts as the radiator and the feeding structure,
respectively. The helix is fed by the feeding loop without physical connection through inductive
coupling, which is convenient to achieve impedance matching. The 90◦ phase difference between
the radiated horizontal and vertical electric field components is naturally guaranteed by the
helix; therefore, circular polarization is achieved through tuning the height and radius of the
helix to ensure equal magnitude of the radiated horizontal and vertical field components. With an
electrical size of 0.17λ0 × 0.17λ0 × 0.11λ0 , the antenna exhibits a simulated impedance bandwidth
(|S11 | ≤ −10 dB) of 5.72% and AR bandwidth (AR ≤ 3 dB) of 27.4%.
Citation
Xiaoyi He,
Qi Liu,
Yufeng Wang,
and
Yufeng Yu,
"An Omni-directional Circularly Polarized Helical Antenna with an Inductive Feed," Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)1809-1811