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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2012.23.9.1034

-1 Mode Circularly Polarized Patch Antenna Using CRLH Transmission Line  

Ko, Seung-Tae (Department of Electronic Information and Communication Engineering, Hongik University)
Park, Byung-Chul (Department of Electronic Information and Communication Engineering, Hongik University)
Lee, Jeong-Hae (Department of Electronic Information and Communication Engineering, Hongik University)
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Abstract
In this paper, a compact circularly polarized metamaterial patch antenna using the -1 mode that is induced by the composit right-left handed(CRLH) transmission line is proposed. Basically, since the -1 mode is the same properties with the +1 mode of the conventional patch antenna, the circular polarization(CP) is realized. If two orthogonal -1 modes are excited with $90^{\circ}$ phase difference, the CP property can be obtained. In order to obtain two orthogonal modes and $90^{\circ}$ phase difference, 4 mushroom structures having the shape of triangle are employed and the inter-digital gaps are optimized, respectively. The fabricated antenna is based on RT/duroid5880 substrate and the total area of the 4 mushrooms is $0.161{\lambda}_0{\times}0.161{\lambda}_0$. It is confirmed that the center frequency of the proposed antenna is measured as 2.845 GHz and it operates from 2.830 GHz to 2.850 GHz. In addition, the antenna maintains the CP property from 2.842 GHz to 2.847 GHz at the peak gain and the measured radiation efficiency is 46 %.
Keywords
Metamaterial; Composit Right-Left Handed(CRLH); -1 Mode; Circular Polarization(CP);
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