A Dual-Fed Aperture-Coupled Microstrip Antenna With Polarization Diversity

This communication presents a dual-port reconfigurable square patch antenna with polarization diversity for 2.4 GHz. By controlling the states of four p-i-n diodes on the patch, the polarization of the proposed antenna can be switched among linear polarization (LP), left- or right-hand circular polarization (CP) at each port. The air substrate and aperture-coupled feed structure are employed to simplify the bias circuit of p-i-n diodes. With high isolation and low cross-polarization level in LP modes, both ports can work simultaneously as a dual linearly polarized antenna for polarimetric radars. Different CP waves are obtained at each port, which are suitable for addressing challenges ranging from mobility, adverse weather conditions and non-line-of-sight applications. The antenna has advantages of simple biasing network, easy fabrication and adjustment, which can be widely applied in polarization diversity applications.

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