A wideband polarization reconfigurable antenna for WLAN applications

Publication Type:
Conference Proceeding
Citation:
2016 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2016, 2016
Issue Date:
2016-05-31
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© 2016 European Association of Antennas and Propagation. This paper proposes a wideband polarization reconfigurable antenna design for WLAN applications. It consists of a shorted annular patch (SAP) antenna as the source, a partially reflective surface (PRS) structure to enhance the gain, and a reconfigurable Wilkinson power divider as the feed network. The antenna can electronically alter its polarization between linear polarization (LP), left-hand circular polarization (LHCP), and right-hand circular polarization (RHCP),achieving an overlapped 10dB impedance bandwidth and 3 dB axial-ratio bandwidth of 4.68-5.33 GHz (13%), thus outperforming most of the reported polarization reconfigurable antennas in terms of the frequency bandwidth.
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