A Novel Band-Notched Elliptical Ring Monopole Antenna with a Coplanar Parasitic Elliptical Patch for UWB Applications

Abstract

A novel band-notched ultra wide-band antenna with a coplanar parasitic elliptical patch in an elliptical ring is presented in this paper. Printed on a dielectric substrate of FR4 with relative permittivity of 4.4 and fed by a 50Ω microstrip line, the proposed monopole antenna demonstrate a 10 dB return loss bandwidth of 2.91–11.91 GHz, with a band-notched at 5.15–5.98 GHz band and good radiation patterns. The proposed antenna is utilize the coplanar parasitic elliptical patch to reject the frequency band (5.15–5.85 GHz) limited by IEEE802.11a and HIPERLAN/2. The parameters which affect the performance of the antenna in terms of its frequency domain characteristics are investigated in this paper.