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Optimizing Cx Polarization Pattern for Patch Antennas

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DenVo

Electrical
Jul 17, 2011
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Dear All,

does anybody know ways to increase the cross polarization supression of a single microstrip patch antenna?

The following technics are known:

1. Feeding the patch with two feeds. One feed has 180° phaseshift.
2. Bending the corner of the patch.

Regards DenVo
 
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feeding the patch with four feeds helps. That'll give optimum if you build it nice and symettrically.
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Hi Higgler,

how would you feed the patch with 4 feeds for one polarization? At present I use 2 feeds (180° out of phase)for the V-polarization, like that:

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Regards DenVo


 
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Use a feed pair North South with 180 hybrid splitter, same for east west. It keeps the current along a straighter trajectory on the patch and optimizes isolation. Why use presently two feeds 180 out of phase when you can get similar for zero degree splitter and rotate the patch 90 degrees?
 
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