In the paper, a bent cross‐shaped dielectric resonator antenna element with wide half‐power beamwidth of 224.9° is proposed and applied for designing a 1 × 8 wide‐angle beam‐scanning linear phased array. To obtain small gain drop and reduce the mutual coupling of the scanning array, the dielectric wall loaded rectangular truncated slots are inserted. For validation, a prototype operating at 5.8 GHz is designed. Measurement results indicate that the main beam of the designed phased array can scan from −70° to +70° GHz with a gain drop of less than 1.75 dB and a sidelobe level of less than −5.08 dB.

In the article, a triple-band dual-sense shared aperture circular polarized (CP) antenna is proposed for multimode BeiDou communication and navigation applications. By integrating the stub-loaded rectangle patch with the shorting-pin-loaded ring patch, the coverage of GPS L2, GPS L5, BDS-2 B2, BDS-2 B3, and BDS-1 L/S bands is realized. Besides, wideband filtering orthogonal feed network is adopted for feeding the ring patch to reduce the mutual coupling interference between the two patches. The slot-loaded ground plane is also employed for further decoupling. For validation, a prototype is designed, fabricated, and measured. The results indicate that the polarization of right-handed circular polarization (RHCP) is obtained at 1.2 GHz with a peak gain of 5.4 dBic for navigation service. While left-handed circular polarization (LHCP) and RHCP are realized at 1.615 GHz and 2.49 GHz, respectively, with the peak gains of 6.7 dBic and 7.4 dBic for communication service.

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