Novel Design of UWB Antenna With Band - Notch Capability
Novel Design of UWB Antenna With Band - Notch Capability
Novel Design of UWB Antenna With Band - Notch Capability
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I. INTRODUCTION
In 2002, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
[1] has released the regulation for UWB technology,
allocating the frequency spectrum from 3.1 to 10.6 GHz for
UWB radio applications. After those regulations, several
structures and designs of UWB antennas have been proposed.
However, over the designated UWB frequency band, there
are existing standards such as IEEE802.11a wireless local area
network (WLAN) and HIPERLAN/2, operating in the 5.0
6.0 GHz band. Hence, rejecting such an already used band is
an important goal for UWB antenna design.
A common technique for band rejection is to use an
external stop band filter. However, this solution increases the
dimensions of the circuit causing an increment of the size of
the device itself.
A more useful and dimensions preserving method is to
create the antenna element with intrinsic band-notch
capability. In literature a few antennas are described [2][5]
where the bandnotch is introduced by a slot carved in the
radiating element. In fact, these slots produce a destructive
interference for the excited surface currents, causing the
antenna not to be responsive at frequencies which depend on
the slots dimensions and positions.
The importance of our work lies on the fact that a novel
method of band rejection is presented: the prohibited band is
obtained via slots cut on the ground planes of the Coplanar
Waveguide (CPW) feeding a planar UWB monopole. These
slots block the currents at the desired frequency, letting them
not arrive to the radiating elements.
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Fig. 1. Band notch antenna topology; all the reported dimensions are
in millimetres.
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On the other hand, the distance of the slots from the CPW
line is a factor that slightly influences the band rejection.
The slot distance from the upper part of the ground plane
has a great influence on the quality of the rejection and the
larger is the distance, the lower is the VSWR in the rejected
band.
Furthermore, it has been observed that the L shape of the
slot is important: if the slot is straight, i.e. in the presence of
only vertical or horizontal slots, there is no band rejection.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors acknowledge the financial support provided by
the Italian Ministry of Research and University (MIUR)
within the PRIN 2005 nr 2005093524 and 2006 programmes.
Fig. 5. Simulated VSWR for different slot lengths.
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