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A Polarization Reconfigurable Wideband DRA Using Cross Stepped Dielectric Resonator

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A wideband dual-feed dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) is proposed by stacking five-layer cross dielectric resonators and dual-port coaxial feeds. The proposed DRA can realize reconfigurable polarization states among right-hand circular polarization, left-hand circular polarization and three linear polarizations at 0°, ± 45°. The impedance bandwidth of DRA is 93.6% from 6.05 to 13.4 GHz. The 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth for circular polarization states is 87.8% from 3.50–8.50 GHz and the overlapped of impedance bandwidth and axial bandwidth is from 6.05 to 8.50 GHz with gain no less than 5 dB.

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This work was supported by Project of Public Welfare Industry of Ministry of Science and Technology of China under Grant No.GYHY201206038.

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Yu, B., Zhang, J. A Polarization Reconfigurable Wideband DRA Using Cross Stepped Dielectric Resonator. Wireless Pers Commun 124, 3145–3158 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-022-09506-3

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