A Chinese Character-Shaped Patch Antenna Array: Zhong-Guo-Meng

Abstract

This paper presents a 1x3 circularly-polarized patch antenna array designated as the Chinese dream antenna array. The three-element array was implemented by using Chinese character-shaped artistic patch antennas (APAs): Zhong-Guo-Meng. The individual patch antennas radiate right-handed circular polarization (RHCP) in the broadside direction, and excited by a one-to-three power divider with equal-power distributions as its feeding network. The CP antenna array exhibits an axial ratio bandwidth and an impedance bandwidth of 310 MHz and 835 MHz, respectively, at a center frequency of 2400 MHz.