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74 IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS, VOL. 2, 2003 A Single-Feeding Circularly Polarized Microstrip Antenna With the Effect of Hybrid Feeding Hyungrak Kim, Byoung Moo Lee, and Young Joong Yoon, Member, IEEE Abstract—In this paper, a single series feeding cross-aperture coupled microstrip antenna with the effect of hybrid feeding is pro- posed and demonstrated. To better understand this antenna, the characteristics according to the variation of parameters are shown. This proposed antenna has the following advantages of the effect of hybrid feeding, improved axial ratio bandwidth (4.6%), high gain (8 dBi), and flat 3-dB gain bandwidth (above 16.7%). In measured radiation patterns, we have 3-dB beamwidth of 30 and good F/B of 20 dB. Index Terms—Effect of hybrid feeding, microstrip antenna. (a) I. INTRODUCTION ITH rapid development of wireless communication Wsystem, many kinds of circularly polarized (CP) antennas have been studied since CP antennas are often preferred in satellite communication, Global Positioning System (GPS), and radar system. In general, feeding structure of CP antenna may be divided into single and hybrid feeding. A single-feeding CP antenna provides simple structure, easy manufacture, and advantage in array with small size. However, it has narrow axial ratio bandwidth. Hybrid feeding gives complex structure, difficult manufacture, and increased antenna size, but it provides wide axial ratio bandwidth. Thus, in the design of CP antenna, a tradeoff of characteristics between two feeding methods is required.