Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems. 9th International EAI Conference, Broadnets 2018, Faro, Portugal, September 19–20, 2018, Proceedings

Research Article

Design of Compact Printed Monopole Antenna with Enhanced Bandwidth and Controllable Filtering Notch for UWB Applications

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-05195-2_29,
        author={Issa Elfergani and Mina Alrawi and Abdelgader Abdalla and Jonathan Rodriguez and Atta Ullah and Raed Abd-Alhameed},
        title={Design of Compact Printed Monopole Antenna with Enhanced Bandwidth and Controllable Filtering Notch for UWB Applications},
        proceedings={Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems. 9th International EAI Conference, Broadnets 2018, Faro, Portugal, September 19--20, 2018, Proceedings},
        proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
        year={2019},
        month={1},
        keywords={Printed monopole antenna Tunable notched-band Defected ground plane},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-030-05195-2_29}
    }
    
  • Issa Elfergani
    Mina Alrawi
    Abdelgader Abdalla
    Jonathan Rodriguez
    Atta Ullah
    Raed Abd-Alhameed
    Year: 2019
    Design of Compact Printed Monopole Antenna with Enhanced Bandwidth and Controllable Filtering Notch for UWB Applications
    BROADNETS
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05195-2_29
Issa Elfergani1,*, Mina Alrawi2,*, Abdelgader Abdalla1,*, Jonathan Rodriguez,*, Atta Ullah3,*, Raed Abd-Alhameed3,*
  • 1: Instituto de Telecomunicações
  • 2: Universidade de Aveiro
  • 3: Bradford University
*Contact email: i.t.e.elfergani@av.it.pt, mina.alrawi@ua.pt, a.m.abdalla@av.it.pt, jonathan@av.it.pt, A.Ullah5@bradford.ac.uk, R.A.A.Abd@bradford.ac.uk

Abstract

Compact printed monopole antenna suitable for UWB applications has been studied and analyzed. The design procedure of the proposed antenna has been elaborated into five stages, Firstly, the antenna with full ground plane was built, in which shows a narrow band of around 10 GHz. Secondly, the ground plane was optimally cut in order to enhance the antenna bandwidth, this version demonstrates a wide bandwidth from 3.15 GHz to 7.20 GHz. Thirdly, to cover the whole range of the UWB spectrum, a rectangle slot was generated on the micro strip line, this version shows a broad frequency range from 3.15 GHz up to 11 GHz, in which meet the UWB system. However, an electromagnetic interference (EMI) may exist in the UWB spectrum, thus, a simple and effective approach of U-slot was used. The U-slot was printed over the radiating element, in which created a notched band around 6.5 GHz. However, this fixed filtering notch cannot be tuned, therefore, a lumped capacitor was positioned on the best place over the generated U-slot, this makes the introduced rejected band tuned over a broad frequency range from 6.5 GHz up to 5.2 GHz. The results exhibit that the antenna structure may be deemed as an attractive candidate for todays’ smart applications.