The book presents basic and advanced concepts of circularly polarized antennas, including design procedure and recent applications. Cross dipole antennas, microstrip antennas, helical antennas, quadrifilar helix antennas, frequency independent antennas, horn antennas, omnidirectional circularly polarized antennas and radial line arry antennas are discussed. With abundant examples, the book is an essential reference for researchers and engineers.
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Tabel of ContentsChapter 1 Antenna parameters1.1 Radiation power density and Radiation intensity1.2 Directivity and Gain1.3 Beam solid angle1.4 Field regions1.5 Patterns1.6 Effective length and effective area1.7 Antenna impedance1.8 Band width1.9 Polarization1.10 Equivalent radiation power1.11 Fires transmission formula1.12 Receiving antennaReferenceChapter 2 Theoretical basis of antenna polarization2.1 Polarization properties of wave2.2 Polarization ellipse angle2.3 Axial ratio2.4 Polarization ratio2.5 Circularly polarized component synthesis2.6 Polarization loss2.7 Cross polarization2.8 Circularly polarized antennaChapter 3 Cross dipole circular polarized antennas3.1 Cross dipole antenna3.2 Self phase shifted cross dipole antenna fed by Balun3.3 Printed self phase shifted cross dipole antenna3.4 Wide band cross dipole circular polarized antennaReferencesChapter 4 Microstrip circularly polarized antennas4.1 Principle and realization method of microstrip circular4.2 Circular polarized microstrip antenna with single probefeed4.3 Stacked circularly polarized microstrip antenna with single probe feed4.4 Circularly polarized microstrip antenna with microstrip line feed4.5 Circular polarized microstrip antenna with networkfeedReferencesChapter 5 Helical antennas5.1 Basic structure of helical antenna5.2 Axial mode helical antenna5.3 Modified axial mode helical antenna5.4 Helicalantenna with back cavity5.5 Normal mode helical antenna5.6 Multi arm helical antennaChapter 6 Quadrifilarhelix antennas6.1 Principle of quadrifilarhelix antenna6.2 Parameters analysis of quadrifilarhelix antenna6.3 Realization of quadrifilarhelix antenna6.4 Research direction of quadrifilarhelix antennaReferencesChapter 7 Frequency independent circularly polarizedantennas7.1 Principle of frequency independentantennas7.2 Planar Archimedes spiral antenna7.3 The planar equiangular spiral antenna7.4 Conical log spiral antenna7.5 Other types offrequency independentantennasReferencesChapter 8 Circular polarized horn antennas8.1 Circular polarizer type8.2 Commonhorn antenna8.3 Circular polarized horn antenna designReferencesChapter 9 Omnidirectional circularly polarized antennas9.1 Omnidirectional radiation with circular array of directional circularly polarized antenna element9.2 Omnidirectional circularly polarized antennarrayed with omnidirectional radiation elements9.3 Other forms of omnidirectional circularly polarized antennasReferencesChapter 10 Circularly polarized radial line array antenna10.1 Structure and basic principle of radial line antenna10.2 Design of circular polarized radial line array antennaReferences