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Polarization Diversity Controllable Monopulse Antenna Array Design
Polarization Diversity Controllable Monopulse Antenna Array Design
Polarization Diversity Controllable Monopulse Antenna Array Design
ABSTRACT The design of a compact and wideband circularly polarized (CP) Monopulse antenna is
presented. Firstly, the small-sized antenna element (13mm × 13mm), with the impedance bandwidth (BW)
of 80.5% (4.3-10.1 GHz) and axial ratio (AR) bandwidth of 48.1% (6-9.8 GHz), and the gain of 7.2 dBic is
designed. The array structure consists of two rat-race couplers; two metalized via holes that generate sum and
difference patterns, and four branch-line couplers for CP characteristic improvement. The proposed antenna
is capable of controlling CP diversity in both sum and difference beams. Additionally, with 50% BW and
25% 3-dB AR results and also with null-depth of less than −48 dB, it is a convenient design for tracking
purposes.
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TABLE 1. The comparison between proposed dual CP antenna element with recent works.
TABLE 2. The comparison between proposed dual CP monopulse array antenna with recent works.
FIGURE 13. The intensity and phase distributions of the near-field of the
proposed CP Monopulse array antenna at the frequency of 8GHz a) port
62, and b) port 12.
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