Compact CPW-fed ultra-wideband antenna feeding structure is employed.

It consists of a H-shaped slot with width

with dual band-notched characteristics
Y.S. Li, X.D. Yang, C.Y. Liu and T. Jiang
A coplanar-waveguide (CPW)-fed ultra-wideband antenna with dual
band-notch characteristic is presented. The antenna is as small as
21 × 28 × 1.6 mm3. The proposed antenna yields an impedance band-
width of 3.1 –10.6 GHz with VSWR , 2, except for the bandwidth of
5 –6 GHz for WLAN and 7.7 –8.5 GHz for X-band. The antenna has
been successfully simulated, fabricated and measured, showing good
impedance matching, stable gain and near omnidirectional radiation
pattern.
Introduction: With the development of the modern wireless communi-
cations, ultra-wideband (UWB) systems have attracted much attention
recently because of their advantages such as high speed data, and
small size. The antenna of ultra-wideband systems plays an important
role in receiving and transmitting ultra-wideband signals so a number
of UWB antennas have been presented for these applications [1 –7].
However, over the required UWB bandwidth, narrow bands used by
WLAN operating at 5 – 6 GHz and X-band at 7.7 – 8.5 GHz coexist.
It is desirable to design an UWB antenna with dual notched bands in
5 – 6 GHz and 7.7– 8.5 GHz to reduce potential interference. Recently,
several UWB antennas with frequency band-rejection function have
been proposed [3, 4], but most only have one band-notch characteristics.
Three UWB antennas using split-ring resonators (SSRs) [5], C-shaped
0.8mm in the CPW ground and a simple square patch with two
U-shaped slots with width 0.2 mm, which excites a rectangle slot with
length 16.8 mm and width 15 mm. the distance between the two arms
of the H-shaped is 2 mm. The H-shaped slot determines the notch
band 5 – 6 GHz, and two U-shaped slots control another notch band
7.7 – 8.5 GHz. Generally speaking, the designed central frequency of
the notch-band function is to adjust the length of the H-shaped and
the U-shaped slots which cut to about half wave-length at the required
notch band. The notch frequency, given the dimensions of the notch-
band function, can be postulated as [6]
c
fnotch = √ (1)
2L 1re
where L is the total length of the U-shaped slots and H-shaped slot, 1re is
the effective dielectric constant, and c is the speed of light. We take (1)
into consideration in achieving the dimensions of the H-shaped slot and
the U-shaped slots at the beginning of the design and then adjust the
geometry for the final design.
10
9
simulated with slots
8 measured with slots
measured without slots
7 simulated without slots
6

VSWR
slots [6] and E-shaped slots have been realised [7]. However, the allo- 5
cated shape has considerable influence on the band-notch characteristics.
4
Also it is difficult to fabricate and adjust the central frequency of the
notch band. In this Letter, a coplanar-waveguide (CPW)-fed UWB 3
antenna with dual band-notch characteristic is investigated numerically 2
and experimentally. By cutting two U-shaped slots in the radiation
patch and an H-shaped slot in the CPW ground, two band-notched fre- 1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
quencies will appear, which reduces potential interference between frequency, GHz
UWB systems and narrow band systems.
Fig. 2 VSWR of proposed dual-band notch UWB antenna and UWB antenna
without slots
21
19
0 0
3.5 GHz
W2 330 30
6.5 GHz
330 30
2 9.5 GHz
0.8
300 60 300 60
2.8 16.8

28 15 5.6 10.8 270 90 270 90

1.2
240 120 240 120

y
210 150 210 150
180 180
z x
1.4
a b
0.3
Fig. 3 Measured radiation patterns of proposed antenna
1.6
a
a x-z plane (H-plane)
b x-y plane (E-plan)

Experiment results and discussion: According to the design rules

b are shown comparatively in Fig. 2. It can be seen from Fig. 2 that the
Fig. 1 Geometry and photograph of proposed antenna
a Geometry
b Photograph
Antenna design: Fig. 1 illustrates the geometry and the configuration of
the proposed dual notch-band antenna. The antenna is printed on a sub-
strate with relative permittivity 2.65, loss tangent of 0.002 and thickness
of 1.6 mm. The size of the antenna is 21 × 28 mm2, and a 50 V CPW
described above, an UWB antenna with dual rejection band at WLAN/
X-band is presented numerically and experimentally. The proposed
antenna is simulated using the Ansoft high frequency structure simulator
(HFSS) based on the finite element method (FEM). The optimised
antenna was fabricated and tested. The VSWR is obtained by a
HP8757D vector network analyser. The simulated and measured
VSWRs of the proposed dual band-notch characteristic antenna and
the UWB antenna without the H-shaped slot and the U-shaped slots
proposed antenna can cover the whole UWB band without all the
slots. Also, it can be seen that the antenna satisfies the UWB (3.1 –
10.6 GHz) applications for VSWR ,2, while rejecting the 5– 6 GHz
for WLAN and 7.7– 8.5 GHz for X-band applications. The differences
between simulated and measured values may be due to errors of the
manufactured antenna and the SMA connector to the CPW-fed trans-
ition, which is included in the measurements but not taken into
account in the calculated results. The measured radiation patterns at
3.5, 6.5, and 9.5 GHz are shown in Fig. 3. It is shown that the antenna

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gives a nearly omnidirectional characteristic in the H-plane and a quasi- # The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2010
omnidirectional pattern in the E-plane. The gain of the proposed antenna 24 May 2010
with and without the slot is shown in Fig. 4. As desired, two sharp gain doi: 10.1049/el.2010.8386
decreases occur in the vicinity of 5.5 and 8.0 GHz. The gain drops to One or more of the Figures in this Letter are available in colour online.
23.6 and 22.4 dBi at the notch band, respectively. Y.S. Li, X.D. Yang, C.Y. Liu and T. Jiang (College of Information and
Communications Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin
5 150001, People’s Republic of China)
4 E-mail: liyingsong@hrbeu.edu.cn
3 T. Jiang: Also with the Research Centre of Telecommunication, Harbin
Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150080, People’s
2
Republic of China
gain, dBi

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