Broadband Circularly Polarized U-Slot Antenna for Wireless Application

Abstract

The antenna presented in this paper is a broadband circularly polarized U slot antenna. The circularly polarized radiation is achieved in this paper by suspending two separated rectangular strips from the inner edge of ground and using inverted L-shaped central feeding stub. The L-shaped stub is oriented at 90 degree with respect to grounded strips. The impedance bandwidth of the antenna proposed here varies from (4.68 - 6.42 GHz) which is 31.3% and the axial ratio bandwidth is from (5.15-6.45 GHz) which is 22.4% for WLAN (ranging from 5.15 to 5.85 GHz) and WIMAX (5.8GHz,5.5 GHz) applications. The antenna is left and right hand circularly polarized in and directions respectively. A wide notch is cut from the ground which enhances the ARBW by 51.35% in comparison to simple square shaped ground. All the results have been simulated successfully.