A High-Gain Circularly Polarized Antenna Array Based on a Chiral Metastructure
Qian-Qian Li, Haifeng Zhang
Abstract
In this article, a chiral metastructure absorber (CMMA) is combined with a circularly polarized (CP) antenna array based on a sequential-phase feed network, and the differential absorption of left-handed circular polarization (LHCP) and right-handed circular polarization (RHCP) by CMMA unit is used to improve the axial ratio beamwidth (ARBW) of CP antenna array by absorbing the cross-polarization of the antenna array. The proposed CMMA unit achieves good circular dichroism at 4.9–5.2 GHz, which improves the ARBW of the antenna in this frequency band. In addition, the feed network of the antenna proposed in this article is in three-dimensional (3-D) form to reduce the coupling between the feed network and the radiation patches, so that higher gain can be obtained. The measured impedance bandwidth of the antenna is 80% (2.81–6.81 GHz), the axial ratio (AR) bandwidth is 70.8% (3.68–7.22 GHz), and the peak gain is 15.28 dBi.