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Design of a Right-Handed Circularly Polarized Printed Antenna for Vehicular Communication

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In this paper, the authors presented a new fractal microstrip patch antenna for Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) (5.850–5.925 GHz) (IEEE 802.11p) service band. The proposed structure is obtained by etching the Minkowski boxes in all the four corners of a square geometry. Further, a square, obtained by imposing a scale factor of 50% of the existing sides, has been erased from each of the corners of the resultant structure. The final structure is obtained by superimposing this existing one with its \(45^\circ \) rotated version. In order to get proper circular polarization and satisfactory S\(_{11}\) characteristics from this structure, three diagonal grooves and four cross-coupled rectangular thin slits are carved from the resultant fractal geometry. A single layered Roger 5880 PCB laminated material is used to design the structure and simulated it using CST Microwave studio. The proposed antenna is a right-handed circularly polarized (RHCP) one with resonating frequency of 5.91 GHz. The measured CP gain of the antenna at resonating frequency is 5.58 dBic, and it gives a 3-dB axial bandwidth of 102 MHz which entirely covers the DSRC band. The measured radiation efficiency of the antenna is 94% and its computed aperture efficiency becomes 72%. The measured result of the prototype makes an excellent agreement with the simulated counterpart.

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This publication is an outcome of the Research work undertaken of SERB Extra Mural Research Funding (File No.: SB/S3/EECE/226/2016), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

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Kola, K.S., Chatterjee, A. Design of a Right-Handed Circularly Polarized Printed Antenna for Vehicular Communication. Wireless Pers Commun 121, 2735–2756 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-021-08846-w

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