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LIST OF FIGURES<br />
3.6 Rectangular patch arrangements for circular polarization: (a) Through a power<br />
divider and (b) Through a 90 o hybrid (Balanis, 2005). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />
3.7 Single-feed arrangements for circular polarization microstrip antennas: (a) Square,<br />
(b) Circular and (c) Elliptical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />
3.8 Single feed circularly polarized microstrip antennas; (a) Nearly square patch and<br />
(b) Amplitude and phase <strong>of</strong> the two modes (Lee, S.K., et al., 2005). . . . . . . . 39<br />
3.9 Geometry design <strong>of</strong> triple feed circular microstrip antenna. . . . . . . . . . . . . 40<br />
3.10 Linearly polarized wave on triple feed circular microstrip antenna. . . . . . . . . 41<br />
3.11 Linear array geometry (Balanis, 2005). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44<br />
3.12 Geometry <strong>of</strong> a planar array. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46<br />
3.13 Polar coordinates showing incremental solid angle dA = r 2 dΩ on the surface <strong>of</strong><br />
a sphere <strong>of</strong> radius r where dΩ = solid angle subtended by the area dA. . . . . . . 47<br />
3.14 Non-uniform amplitude arrays <strong>of</strong> even and odd number <strong>of</strong> elements (Balanis, 2005). 49<br />
4.1 Design methodology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56<br />
4.2 Flow chart <strong>of</strong> the antenna fabrication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58<br />
4.3 Diagram <strong>of</strong> required antenna measurement equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60<br />
4.4 Schematic <strong>of</strong> the antenna measurement system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60<br />
4.5 Photograph <strong>of</strong> antenna measurement in anechoic chamber at MRSL, Chiba University:<br />
(a) Array antenna and (b) Triple-fed antenna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61<br />
4.6 Antenna gain measurement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63<br />
5.1 The 3-way circular-sector-shaped power divider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />
5.2 Geometry design <strong>of</strong> proposed antenna; (a) top view and (b) side view. . . . . . . 66<br />
5.3 Photograph <strong>of</strong> fabricated CMA: (a) triple proximity-fed and (b) circular radiator. 66<br />
5.4 Simulation results showing the frequency dependence <strong>of</strong> the axial ratio (AR) <strong>of</strong><br />
the CMA for various values <strong>of</strong> phase shift applied to the feeds. . . . . . . . . . . 67<br />
5.5 Vector current distribution <strong>of</strong> the designed CMA for various phase values <strong>of</strong> the<br />
source, (a) φ s = 0 o , (b) φ s = 45 o , (c) φ s = 90 o , and (d) φ s = 135 o . . . . . . . . 68<br />
5.6 The efficiency <strong>of</strong> the antenna configuration as a function <strong>of</strong> frequency. . . . . . . 68<br />
5.7 Simulated and measured reflection coefficient vs. frequency. . . . . . . . . . . . 69<br />
5.8 Simulated and measured input impedance (Z in ) plotted as a function <strong>of</strong> frequency.<br />
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69<br />
5.9 Simulated and measured axial ratio (AR) vs. frequency at θ = 0 o . . . . . . . . . 70<br />
5.10 Simulated and measured gain (G) vs. frequency at θ = 0 o . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71<br />
5.11 Measured and simulated radiation pattern <strong>of</strong> proposed antenna at f = 1.28<br />
GHz: (a) in the y − z plane (Az = 90 o and 270 o ) and (b) in the x − z plane<br />
(Az = 0 o and 180 o ). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72<br />
5.12 Configuration <strong>of</strong> the antenna array consisting <strong>of</strong> three blocks, each block having<br />
2×2 element patches: (a) top view, and (b) side view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75<br />
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