Reference format: | LI Sijia, CAO Xiangyu, YANG Huanhuan, CHEN Dasen, GUO Rong. Design of the tilted beam and circularly polarized linear array based on the flower-spiral structure[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF RADIO SCIENCE, 2014, 29(6): 1133-1139. doi: 10.13443/j.cjors.2013110702 |
Design of the tilted beam and circularly polarized linear array based on the flower-spiral structure
In order to enhance the gain of antenna, a novel 8-element circularly polarized linear array is proposed based on the array theory. The linear array is composed of 8-element flower-Archimedean-spiral structure and microstrip Wilkinson feed line. The gain of the array antenna is increased through the distance optimization between the near cells. The array is designed, simulated, fabricated and measured for indicating its availability. The experimental results are carried out to verify the simulation results. The measurement shows a promising performance of the array. The experimental results indicate that the array achieves a-10 dB return loss bandwidth of 18.75%. The gain of the array is more than 18 dBi and the maximal gain is 192 dBi at 6.1 GHz when the azimuth angle of tilted beam is approximately 30° with the circularly polarization. The crosspolarization component of the array is smaller than -13 dB in the band from 5.8 GHz to 7 GHz.