Research Article
A Compact Dual-Band Circularly Polarized Antenna with Wide HPBWs for CNSS Applications
Table 1
Performance comparison between the proposed antenna and the previous dual-band antennas.
| Antenna structure | Overall dimension | −10 dB bandwidth (%) | 3 dB AR bandwidth (%) | HPBWs (°) | Max gain (dBic) | Radiation efficiency (%) |
| Proposed antenna | 0.211λ0 × 0.211λ0 × 0.057λ0 | 5.5 6.1 | 4.2 2.6 | 120 116 | 3.4 2.9 | 77 72 | Ref. [5] | 0.23λ0 × 0.23λ0 × 0.07λ0 | ≥20 ≥20 | Exact values not specified | ≤100 ≤100 | 3.6 3.8 | 86 82 | Ref. [6] | 0.47λ0 × 0.42λ0 × 0.098λ0 | 12.7 11.4 | 1.9 2.1 | ≤80 ≤80 | 5.0 7.0 | Exact values not specified | Ref. [13] | 0.448λ0 × 0.448λ0 × 0.077λ0 | 2.3 7.2 | 0.6 1.4 | ≤80 ≤80 | 4.3 6.4 | Exact values not specified | Ref. [14] | 0.491λ0 × 0.491λ0 × 0.164λ0 | 6.3 22.0 | 1.9 7.3 | ≤80 ≤80 | 6.3 7.5 | 90 97.4 | Ref. [16] | 0.368λ0 × 0.368λ0 × 0.122λ0 | 1.4 6.5 | 0.8 2.2 | 82 82 | 7.0 6.7 | 95 87 | Ref. [17] | 0.483λ0 × 0.483λ0 × 0.015λ0 | 2.3 3.0 | 0.6 0.7 | 100 114 | 3.9 3.9 | Exact values not specified | Ref. [21] | 0.52λ0 × 0.52λ0 × 0.224λ0 | ≥10 ≥10 | ≥10 ≥10 | 135 112 | 4.2 4.2 | Exact values not specified |
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