Circular Polarization is a method in which the electric field of the passing wave does not change the strength but only changes direction in a rotary manner. Circular polarization may be referred to as right-handed or lefthanded, and clockwise or anti-clockwise, depending on the direction in which the electric field vector rotates. Circular polarization is often used erroneously to describe mix...

In this letter, we present a correlated channel model for a dual-polarization antenna to omnidirectional antennas in indoor small-cell multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In an indoor environment, we confirm that the cross-polarization discrimination (XPD) in the direction of angle-of-departure can be represented as the spatial correlation of the MIMO channel. We also evaluate a dual...

The use of dual polarization in meteorological radars offers significant advantages over single polarization. Recently a standard single-polarization C-band radar was upgraded to operate in dualpolarization mode. The antenna has a 4.2m diameter parabolic reflector with a prime-focus feed. A spherical Fresnel-zone holographic technique was used to obtain the radiation pattern for the upgraded an...

It is well known that directional antennas and circular polarization (CP) antennas are effective in reducing degradations of receiving power caused by multipath propagation effects [1]. Therefore, simultaneous controlling these two features—directivity and polarization—is expected to considerably reduce such adverse effects. Some papers have reported CP antennas with beam steering means [2], [3...

A circular polarized patch antenna for UHF RFID tag-based sensor applications is presented, with the circular polarization (CP) generated by a new antenna shape, an asymmetric stars shaped slotted microstrip patch antenna (CP-ASSSMP). Four stars etched on the patch allow the antenna's size to be reduced by close to 20%. The proposed antenna is matched with two RFID chips via inductive-loop matc...

A new reduced size single probe fed microstrip patch antenna with irregular slits has been presented to be used as a receiving antenna for Global Positioning Systems (GPS) integrated with cellular handheld mobile wireless systems. The proposed design is based on the nearly square microstrip patch antenna with two pairs of orthogonal slits cut from the edge. It has been found that this antenna o...

A new dual band and dual polarized slot antenna is designed at x band, using longitudinal and transverse slots on the broad wall of the substrate integrated waveguide. The two resonances are completely apart in a low cross polarization level at both sets. antenna has a minimum radiation efficiency of 80% in both bands.

The Design of hexagonal patch is presented withsingle coaxial feed namelysimple hexagonalpatch,hexagonal patch with one triangular slot in ground for circular polarization. The circular polarization of two antennas are obtained with 1.31% axial ratio(AR) for simple hexagonal patch, 4.43% axial ratio hexagonal patch with slotted ground hexagonal patch antenna. The impedance band widths of these ...

Modified design of obtaining dual-circular polarization radiation of a single-feed square microstrip antenna are proposed and experimentally studied. The proposed single-feed dual circular polarized design is achieved by inserting four Tshaped slits at the patch edges of a square microstrip antenna. Details of the design considerations of the proposed antenna are described, and experimental res...

We describe the Submillimeter Array (SMA) Polarimeter, a polarization converter and feed multiplexer installed on the SMA. The polarimeter uses narrow-band quarter-wave plates to generate circular polarization sensitivity from the linearly-polarized SMA feeds. The wave plates are mounted in rotation stages under computer control so that the polarization handedness of each antenna is rapidly sel...