Design of compact circular disc circularly polarized antenna with Koch curve fractal defected ground structure

A circularly polarized microstrip patch antenna with Koch curve fractal defected ground structure (DGS) for mobile applications is presented. Asymmetric `+' shape slots are incorporated on circular patch for getting circular polarization. The advantages of incorporation of Koch curve fractal DGS for improvement of performance parameters of circular polarized antenna presented. It is shown that with every progressive stage of fractal DGS iteration, in addition to reduction in size of the patch, other performance parameters of the antenna such as 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth, 10 dB impedance bandwidth and radiation efficiency also show significant improvement in their values at cost of marginal reduction of the gain. The design, evaluation and comparison of the proposed antenna with conventional simple circular disc circular polarized antenna without DGS along with intermediate and final iterations of Koch curve fractal DGS are illustrated.