Design of a Wideband Quad-Polarization Reconfigurable Patch Antenna Array Using a Stacked Structure

• Published in: IEEE transactions on antennas and propagation Vol. 65; no. 6; pp. 3014 - 3023
• Main Authors: Hu, Jun, Hao, Zhang-Cheng, Hong, Wei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.06.2017; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Antenna arrays; Antenna feeds; Antennas; Broadband; Broadband antennas; Circular polarization; Coplanar waveguides; Etching; Feeding; Holes; Horizontal polarization; Impedance; Linear polarization; Low profile; Parasitic elements (antennas); Patch antennas; Patches (structures); Polarization; polarization reconfigurable; Ports; Ports (Computers); Simulation; stacked patch structure; substrate integrated waveguide (SIW); Vertical polarization; Wideband

In this paper, a wideband stacked patch antenna array composed of four linearly polarized antenna elements is proposed for the implementation of four polarization reconfigurable states, i.e., vertical linear polarization (LP), horizontal LP, left-hand circular polarization, and right-hand circular p...