A compact wideband four‐arm spiral antenna with dual modes

A compact wideband four‐arm circularly polarized (CP) spiral antenna with both sum mode (1) and difference mode (2) is presented. The antenna is composed of a modified four‐arm equiangular spiral, a four‐arm z‐directional helix, a ring‐shaped absorber, and a ground plane. By using the modified equia...

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Published in:Microwave and optical technology letters 2021-04, Vol.63 (4), p.1243-1248
Main Authors: Chang, Lei, Chen, Ling‐Lu, Chen, Zhuang‐Zhi, Zhang, Jian‐Qiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antennas
Bandwidths
Broadband
Circular polarization
Diameters
Ground plane
Impedance matching
Low frequencies
spiral antenna
Spiral antennas
sum and difference patterns
wideband
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Summary:A compact wideband four‐arm circularly polarized (CP) spiral antenna with both sum mode (1) and difference mode (2) is presented. The antenna is composed of a modified four‐arm equiangular spiral, a four‐arm z‐directional helix, a ring‐shaped absorber, and a ground plane. By using the modified equiangular spiral and the z‐directional helix, the impedance matching of mode 1 and mode 2 is improved, and the cross‐polarization discrimination of mode 2 is also improved in the low frequency band. The z‐directional helix is also applied to achieve a compact size of the antenna and an enhanced AR bandwidth of mode 2. A prototype of the four‐arm spiral antenna is fabricated and measured with a beamformer operating at 0.5 to 2 GHz. It is shown that both sum and difference radiation patterns are generated in the whole frequency band of 0.5 to 2 GHz. The overall size is 0.486λ0.5 GHz × 0.097λ0.5 GHz (diameter × height, λ0.5 GHz is the free‐space wavelength at 0.5 GHz).
ISSN:0895-2477
1098-2760
DOI:10.1002/mop.32724