Design of a Wideband Circularly Polarized Stacked Dielectric Resonator Antenna

A kind of circular polarized (CP) stacked dielectric resonator (DR) antenna with wide bandwidth and high gain is presented in this communication. For this design, a two-layer DR with improved performance in bandwidth and gain is used as the basic resonator. By further applying it into a stacked design, two similar modes with adjacent resonant frequencies can be merged together, providing a wide axial ratio bandwidth of more than 20%. The single-feed CP operation is achieved by adopting a coupling cross-slot, which is beneficial for fine-tuning and array forming, as compared to multifeed structures. Two design examples working at different frequency bands and for different senses of CP have been presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the design concept.