TY - JOUR AU - Liu, Ren‐Huai AB - In this article, a new broadband circularly polarized (CP) microstrip patch antenna (MPA) with a sequential phase (SP) square‐loop feeding structure is proposed. The presented antenna is composed of a square‐loop feeding structure, four L‐shaped parasitic patches with L‐shaped slots, four parasitic square patches, and a corner‐truncated square patch. At first, a SP square‐loop is designed as a feeding structure. Then, four L‐shaped parasitic patches with L‐shaped slots are utilized to generate one CP mode by a capacitive coupled way. At last, four parasitic square patches and a corner‐truncated square patch are together placed above the SP feeding structure to broaden the circularly polarized bandwidth (CPBW). The presented antenna has a wide 3‐dB axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW) of 16.7% (5.4 GHz, 4.95‐5.85 GHz), and a wide 10‐dB return loss bandwidth of 25.5% (5.5 GHz, 4.8‐6.2 GHz). The proposed antenna features compact structure and broad 3‐AR bandwidth which could completely cover the WLAN (5.725‐5.85GHz) band. Therefore, the proposed antenna is suitable for circular polarization applications in C band. TI - A compact double‐layer wideband circularly polarized microstrip antenna with parasitic elements JO - International Journal of Rf and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering DO - 10.1002/mmce.22471 DA - 2021-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/a-compact-double-layer-wideband-circularly-polarized-microstrip-f9NXlf88Kf SP - n/a EP - n/a VL - 31 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -