A High-Gain Circularly Polarized Antenna Array Based on a Chiral Metastructure

Abstract

In this article, a chiral metastructure absorber (CMMA) is combined with a circularly polarized (CP) antenna array based on a sequential-phase feed network, and the differential absorption of left-handed circular polarization (LHCP) and right-handed circular polarization (RHCP) by CMMA unit is used to improve the axial ratio beamwidth (ARBW) of CP antenna array by absorbing the cross-polarization of the antenna array. The proposed CMMA unit achieves good circular dichroism at 4.9-5.2 GHz, which improves the ARBW of the antenna in this frequency band. In addition, the feed network of the antenna proposed in this article is in three-dimensional (3-D) form to reduce the coupling between the feed network and the radiation patches, so that higher gain can be obtained. The measured impedance bandwidth of the antenna is 80% (2.81-6.81 GHz), the axial ratio (AR) bandwidth is 70.8% (3.68-7.22 GHz), and the peak gain is 15.28 dBi.