Wideband Circularly Polarized Cross-Dipole Antenna With Parasitic Elements

A wideband circularly polarized (CP) cross-dipole antenna with parasitic elements is proposed. The proposed antenna consists of a pair of driven crossed strip dipoles, two kinds of parasitic elements (inner and outer parasitic elements), and a pair of vacant-quarter printed rings. The driven crossed strip dipoles can generate a CP mode due to the sequential phases given by the vacant-quarter printed rings. Another CP mode can also be stimulated by placing these parasitic elements to the edge of crossed strip dipoles. By combining with two CP modes of the cross-dipoles, the proposed antenna achieves a wideband CP performance. The measured results indicate that the proposed antenna exhibits wideband CP characteristics with an impedance bandwidth (IBW) of 77.6% (1.11 - 2.52 GHz) and axial-ratio bandwidth (ARBW) of 66% (1.25 - 2.48 GHz). The proposed antenna would be suitable for CP applications in wireless communication systems, such as the global positioning system (GPS; 1.575 GHz) and wireless broadband access service (WiBro; 2.3 - 2.39 GHz).