Wideband Bidirectional Same Sense Endfire Circularly Polarized Antenna

In this paper, a wideband bidirectional endfire circularly polarized (CP) antenna is proposed by combining two endfire CP antennas with a single coaxial probe feed. The wideband characteristics are achieved with the help of a two-layered substrate separated by an air gap, and the excitation of CP waves in the endfire directions is yielded by the wideband magnetic dipoles and tapered electric dipoles. The proposed CP antenna has shown wide 10-dB impedance bandwidth (IBW) and 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW) of 20.76% (5.05 - 6.22 GHz) and 16.10% (5.14 - 6.04 GHz), respectively. Besides showing an overall size of 0.733λL × 0.863λL× 0.058λL (λL is the wavelength corresponding to the lowest operating frequency) with wide operational bandwidth, the proposed CP antenna has also demonstrated a desirable peak gain of 4.45 dBic.

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