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reduced and therefore the array can be designed with smaller element spacing. When comparing the experimental results for the
single element CP antenna with those for the array, it is found
that the ne\$ 2 x 2 array configuration offers a wider impedance
bandwidth than the single element CP antenna. Similarly, the CP
array also improves the axial ratio bandwidth and the boresight
axial I-atio. Experimental results of return loss, radiation pattern
and polarisation aspect ratio are also presented in this Letter.
slot Width w,
length Lb
line width WL
Conclusions: A single-feed circularly-polarised disk-sector microstrip antenna has been experimentally investigated. The present CP
design requires no perturbation elements to be introduced in the
patch, and the excitation of two near-degenerate orthogonal
modes for CP radiation is mainly controlled by the flare angle of
the patch, which is experimentally found to be 65 and 70".
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References
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2 WONG. K.L., and L I N . Y F.: 'Circularly polarised microstrip antenna
with tuning stub', Electron. Letr., 1998. 34, pp. 831-832
3 WONG, K L., HSU. w.H , and wu. C.K : 'Single-ked circularly polarized
microstrip antenna with a slit', Mzcvoiv. Opt. Technol. Lett., 1998.
18, pp. 306-308
4 LU. J H , TANG, c L.. and WONG, K . L : 'Circular polarisation design of
single-feed equilateral-triangular microstrip antenna', Election.
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20mn, the length of the shorter slot L,, is 10inm and the width W,
of the slots is 2.
The patch-line overlap length of a single element U is 23.
Based on the design of the single-elemmt CP
antenna, the design of the 2 x 2 CP antenna array is shown in Fig.
lh. The designed frequency of the antenna array is 1.61GIIz and
the element spacing D of the array is 0.59 A,, and the patch-line
overlap length is the same as the single element.
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Intvoduction: Elements of large arra:ys are often grouped into subarrays for the purpose of decreasing the array feed complexity or
reducing the number of controls. SiibarrdyS are useful in systems
that scan over a limited field of view (LFOV) and also in wideband scanning systems. In an LFOV system that scans to kO,,,,,
the use of only a single phase shifter per subarray results in significant cost savings since the maximum subarray spacing D is of the