A highly miniaturized planar antenna with dual band-notched using two slot types for UWB wireless communications

Author

Tammam, E. ; Yoshitomi, Kuniaki ; Allam, A. ; El-Sayed, M. ; Kanaya, Haruichi ; Yoshida, Kenta

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr., Comm., & Comput. Eng., Egypt-Japan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Alexandria, Egypt

fYear

2012

fDate

4-7 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

726

Lastpage

728

Abstract

A very low profile monopole ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna with band rejection characteristics is presented. The antenna is designed to reject the frequency bands of WiMAX and WLAN while the size of the antenna is miniaturized significantly. The overall size after extensive optimization of the antenna´s dimensions is 12×18 mm². A half-wavelength slot in the radiator of the antenna is used to introduce a frequency band-notch at the WiMAX frequency band. However, the WLAN frequency band is notched using two symmetrical open-ended quarter-wavelength slots in the ground plane. The proposed antenna is simulated, fabricated, and its performance is measured experimentally. The simulation and measurement results demonstrate the suitability of the proposed antenna to work properly in the UWB systems.

Keywords

WiMax; monopole antennas; multifrequency antennas; optimisation; planar antennas; slot antennas; ultra wideband antennas; ultra wideband communication; wireless LAN; UWB wireless communication; WLAN; WiMAX frequency band; antenna dimension optimization; antenna radiator; band rejection characteristics; dual frequency band-notch; ground plane; highly miniaturized planar antenna; monopole ultra wideband antenna; open-ended quarter-wavelength slot; slot antenna; Antenna measurements; Slot antennas; Ultra wideband antennas; WiMAX; Wireless LAN; U-shaped radiator; UWB antenna; band-notched antenna; compact size; miniaturization; open-ended slot;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2012 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Kaohsiung

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1330-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-1331-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2012.6421717

Filename

6421717