Four-Band-Notched UWB Antenna Using Three

Circular Split-Rings And A Square Split-Ring

Jiangjiang Li, YunSheng Liu, ShaoQun Luo,
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
E-mail address: jianguestc@sohu.com

Abstract- In this paper, a new design of a compact ultra-

wideband monopole antenna covering 3.1-12 GHz with four
band-notched characteristics is presented. The proposed antenna
utilized three circular split-ring and a square split-ring to create
four electromagnetic interference notched-bands including
WLAN(5.15-5.35 GHz and 5.725-5.825 GHz), C-band(3.7-4.2
GHz) and X-band(7.3-7.8 GHz) satellite communication system
and . Simulated results show that the designed antenna with
compact size of 26h30 mm2 has an impedance of 3.1-12 GHz for
VSWR less than 2 except the four frequency stop-bands to the
UWB communication system. The results show that proposed
antenna are very suitable for various portable UWB system.
Index Terms-band-notched, UWB antenna, monopole, split-
ring, electromagnetic interference.

I. INTRODUCTION
since the federal communications commission(FCC)
authorized the unlicensed use of 3.1-10.6 GHz spectrum for
commercial use in 2002[1], UWB monopole antennas have
gained more and more attention due to its advantages such as
high-speed date rate transmission in short range, extremely
wide operation bandwidth, low cost, low profile and ease of
fabrication etc. However, the UWB antennas designers are Fig. 1 geometry of the four-band-notched UWB antenna
facing many challenges especially the electromagnetic
are obtained. The novelty of the antenna is that the method to
interference problems for there are some other wireless
create four notched-bands is very simple and operable. In
communication system including WIMAX, WLAN, C-band
addition, the VSWR of the every notched-band exceed 7.5
satellite communication systems, X-band satellite
which can great extent reduce the interference to other
communication systems etc are also operating at the UWB
communication systems. What's more, the whole size of the
range. Therefore, to design UWB antenna with multiple band-
proposed antenna is just 26h30 mm2, which is small enough
notched characteristics are very necessary.
There are several available approach to achieving a band- to be integrated in mobile communication system.
notched characteristic, such as to embed different shaped slots
including U-shaped[2], H-shaped[3], C-shaped[4] slots in II. ANTENNA DESIGN AND ANALYSIS
radiating element or its ground plan, to embed 0.5 or 0.25
resonators at the nearby of the feed line[5], to use integrated The geometry and configuration of the proposed antenna is
capacitance loading loop resonators at the feed line[6]. shown in fig. 1. The proposed antenna is printed on FR4
Although these methods are useful and effective, most of these substrate with thickness of 1 mm and relative permittivity of
antenna only reject two band or three band that has mentioned 4.3 and loss tangent of 0.025. To be integrated with other
before, antenna with more than four notched-band are very coplanar waveguide(CPW) based circuits, the proposed
seldom. Paper[7] has proposed an antenna which with five antenna is fed by a CPW feeder. The CPW line is designed to
notched-bands, however, the antenna's size is 80h80 mm2, be 50 Ohm. The antenna's shape is optimized to obtain the
which is too big and hard to be integrated in mobile best impedance matching for 50 Ohm source. Details of the
communication systems. procedure are as follows.
In this paper, we first design a UWB monopole antenna A. Tri-Band-Notched UWB Antenna Design
covering 3.1-12 GHz. By embedding three circular split-ring
and a square split-ring, four notched-bands including WLAN In this section, the basic UWB antenna is described, the
systems, C-band and X-band satellite communication systems ideas of the tri-band-notched UWB antenna is discussed.
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Fig. 2 Simulated VSWR of the basic UWB antenna(without any
split-rings).
Fig. 3 Simulated VSWR of the tri-band-notched UWB antenna.
Fig. 4 Simulated VSWR values for various gap sizes g of the square
split-ring .
Fig. 5 The CST-predicted maximum realized gain for the four-band
notched UWB antenna displayed in Fig. 1
Fig. 2 shows the basic UWB antenna's VSWR. It can be
seen the basic antenna can operate at the whole UWB range
very well. As is known to us, to obtain multiple notched-bands,
to embed multiple circular split-ring on the radiators is
available[8]. However, it is difficult to designed multiple
notched-bands respectively for the coupling effect of the split-
rings. Based on the above analysis, we consider embedding
three circular split-rings on the radiator at the same time, just
adjust the placement and the radius of the circular split-rings,
the corresponding three notched-bands(WLAN, C-band
satellite communication systems) are obtained easily. Fig. 3
shows the VSWR of the tri-band-notched UWB antenna using
three circular split-rings, it can be seen that every notched-
band's VSWR is more than 7.5
B. Four-Band-Notched UWB Antenna Design
As is known to us, the ground plane play a important role in
antenna's radiation, to embed split-rings in the ground plane
can also obtain notched-bands characteristics[6]. Based above
analysis we, embed a square split-ring onto the ground plane
expect to obtain another notched-band characteristic. Fig. 4
shows the VSWR of the proposed four-band-notched UWB
antenna. By adjusting the gap of the square split-ring, The
center frequency of the notched-band of can move and finally
get right place. The whole optimal parameters for the
proposed antenna are H=30 mm, H1=12.5 mm, H2=17 mm,
H3=6.2 mm, W=26 mm, W1=2.8 mm, W2=22 mm, W3=2 mm,
W4=0.6 mm, g=0.2 mm, g1=0.6 mm, g2=1.2 mm, g3=0.4 mm.
III. RESULT AND DISCUSSION
Fig. 5 shows the simulated maximum realized gain of the
proposed UWB antenna. It can be seen that the gain of the
proposed antenna decrease at these four band-notched
frequencies and have high values away from them. Therefore,
the proposed UWB antenna are good enough for UWB
applications and are very suitable for various portable UWB
systems.


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