CIRCULARLY POLARISED CAVITY- BACKED

CROSSED DIPOLE ANTENNA

Submitted By:
Kumar Gaurav

(ME/EC/45007/2013 )

UNDER GUIDANCE OF
Dr. Bharat Gupta
Associate Professor
B.I.T Kolkata

Vivek Kumar Singh

Scientist B
SAMEER Kolkata

DEPARTMENT OF E.C.E
BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,MESRA
KOLKATA CAMPUS

CONTENTS
Introduction

Motivation
Literature Survey
Objective
Methodology
Expected outcomes
Future Work
References

INTRODUCTION
POLARIZATION
Two-dimensional transverse waves exhibit a phenomenon
called polarization .
Wave polarization is the E fields orientation, direction and the
possible planar component of EM wave satisfying the basic
transverse nature.

Cont..
Types Of Polarization
POLARIZATION

CIRCULAR

LINEAR

HORIZONTAL

VERTICAL

RHCP/RHEP

ELLIPTICAL

LHCP/LHEP

Cont.

Advantages of CP over LP
CP is preferred since LP signal undergoes change in
polarization while travelling through the ionosphere due to
earths magnetic field while CP signal has self
compensating facility.
CP signal allow the receiving antenna to discriminate
between direct signal from the satellite and strong
multipath signal arriving at antenna after reflection.
The polarization of reflected multipath signal is changed
to LHCP and thus allowing the antenna to discriminate
against it specially when it has good axial ratio.

DIPOLE ANTENNA
It consists of two identical conductive elements such as metal

wires or rods, which are usually bilaterally symmetrical .

A cross dipole antenna is a radio antenna with a set of two dipole
antennas aligned at right angles to each other with currents of
equal magnitude and in phase quadrature.
It works in two mode: Normal and Axial mode
Axial mode normally preferred for circular polarized radiation
and in this mode dipoles are arranged in such a way that they
have perpendicular feeding.
With the use of cavity reflector crossed dipole antenna
reinforcing the strong circularly polarized antenna.
Its axial mode is basically used in satellite communication .

MOTIVATION
The combination of Circular polarization and axial mode crossed
dipole antenna best suits for satellite combination, missiles and for GPS
application.
GPS receiver requirements are:
i. RHCP/LHCP
ii. Wide 3dB axial ratio beamwidth that faces the sky
iii. A high front to back ratio to avoid interference from the
ground.
With the use of CPCD antenna we can fulfill all the above
requirements with best VSWR along with
easiness in frequency
variation.
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Literature Survey
Year

Name of Author

Research Topic

Remark

2013

Son Xuat Ta, Jae Jin Han,

Ikmo Park (Journal of
Electromagnetic
Engineering and Science )

Compact Circularly
Polarized Composite
Cavity-Backed
Crossed
Dipole
Antenna

Use of mender lines

in dipole arm and
arrowhead trace at its
ends.

2012

C. Wu, L. Han, F. Yang, L.

Wang, and P. Yang(Journal
of Electromagnetic
Engineering and Science )

Broad beamwidth
circular polarization
antenna: microstrip
monopole antenna

Discussion about
beam width
improvement
regarding circular
polarization

2012

C. W. Su, S. K. Huang, and

C. H. Lee (IEEE Journal )

CP microstrip
antenna with wide
beam width for GPS
band application

Focused on widening
beamwidth for GPS
Application
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OBJECTIVE
To design and develop a compact circularly
polarized cavity backed crossed dipole antenna for
GPS bands.
The reason of choosing CPCD is that it provides
improved CP radiation in terms of 3dB axial ratio
bandwidth and beamwidth than that of other CP
antennas like pinwheel planar monopole antenna
and microstrip antenna.

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METHODOLOGY
The designing methods of CPCD antenna is as follows :
Software- HFSS(High Frequency Structure Simulator)
Substrate- Rogers RO4003 of permittivity 3.38, loss tangent .0027 and
thickness .2032 mm
Feeding -coaxial feeding
Additional Requirements Cavity reflector is also chosen so that it will increase front to back ratio by
suppressing the 8 shaped pattern.
Mender line and arrow head shaped end is attached in each dipole arm to
reduce the dipole length and achieve compact size of primary radiation
element.
The quarter printed ring is employed to produce CP radiation along with for
broadband characteristic.
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EXPECTED OUTCOME
This thesis output is aimed to give a circularly polarized crossed
dipole antenna that will work for GPS bands (LI band 1.575GHz ) .

The antenna will be right hand circularly polarized antenna along

with

1. high front to back ratio.

2. wide 3dB axial ratio beamwidth .
3. AR around 1.2-1.3
4. VSWR<2(function of ring radius)
The antenna will also show a unique property that its operating
frequency can be controlled by starting point of mender lines.
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FUTURE WORK
Till date my study part is going on and I will try my best to
wrap up the study part as soon as possible.
After that I will go for understanding and application study of
HFSS(High Frequency Structure Simulator) Software.
Further I will move for designing part and later on I will try to
fabricate my designed antenna .

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REFERENCES
[1] Son Xuat Ta, Jae Jin Han, Ikmo Park, compact circularly
polarized composite cavity backed crossed dipole Proc. IEEE,
vol.13 , no. 1, pp. 44-49, Mar. 2013.
[2] P. Enge, P. Misra, "Special issue on global positioning systems,"
Proc. IEEE, vol. 87, no. 1, pp. 3-15, Jan. 1999.
[3] C. W. Su, S. K. Huang, and C. H. Lee, "CP microstrip antenna
with wide beamwidth for GPS band application," Electron. Lett., vol.
43 no. 20, pp. 1062-1063, Sep. 2007.
[4] C. Wu, L. Han, F. Yang, L. Wang, and P. Yang, "Broad beamwidth
circular polarization antenna: microstrip-monopole antenna,"
Electron. Lett., vol. 48, no. 19, 1176-1178, 2012.
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THANK YOU..

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