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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2007.18.1.024

Design of a Windmill-Shaped Loop Antenna for Polarization Diversity  

Kim, Doo-Soo (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology)
Ahn, Chi-Hyung (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology)
Im, Yun-Taek (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology)
Lee, Sung-Jun (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute)
Lee, Kwang-Chun (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute)
Park, Wee-Sang (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology)
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Abstract
A windmill-shaped loop antenna is designed for polarization diversity. Its circumference is almost 10 times that of a conventional small loop antenna whose circumference is less than ${\lambda}/10$ but its the radiation pattern is omni-directional. An identical parasitic element is placed over the radiator to match the antenna input impedance. An equivalent transmission line and RLC circuit models are shown to fully describe for the windmill-shaped loop antenna. The proposed antenna has a bandwidth of 6 % with input VSWR less than 2:1 and a polarization purity of 15 dB at 2.6 GHz, and the gain of 1.5 dBi. The simulated and measured results show fairly good agreement.
Keywords
Polarization Diversity; Loop Antenna; Windmill-Shaped; Parasitic Loop;
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