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DUAL BAND NOTCHED UWB ANTENNA WITH A T-SHAPED
PARASITIC STRIP AND A DEFECTED GROUND PLANE
Priya Shukla1
, Aman Verma1
, Vidhushi1
, Neha1
1
B.Tech Student, Electronics and Communication Dept., MIT, Meerut, (U.P), INDIA
Kuldeep Singh Naruka2
2
Assistant Professor, Electronics and Communication Dept., MIT, Meerut, (U.P), INDIA
ABSTRACT
This paper presents a small microstrip-fed monopole antenna. The purpose of this
antenna is used to prevent interference problems due to the existing nearby
communication systems within an UWB operating frequency. The band-notches are
realized by adding an independent controllable strip as well as using a hook- shaped
defected ground structure (DGS) in the ground plane, and band rejected filtering properties
in the WiMAX/WLAN are achieved. Simulated results show that the designed antenna,
with a compact size of 24 x 26 x 0.8 mm3, has an impedance bandwidth of 2.9-14 GHz
for VSWR less than 2, except two frequency stop-bands of 3-4 GHz and 5.1-5.6 GHz.
The antenna is successfully designed and simulated.
Index Terms: T-Shaped Parasitic Strip, Defected Ground Plane, Printed Square Monopole
Antenna, ultrawideband (UWB).
1. INTRODUCTION
Commercial ultrawideband (UWB) systems require small low-cost antennas with
omnidirectional radiation patterns and large bandwidth [1]. It is a well-known fact that planar
monopole antennas present really appealing physical features such as simple structure, small size,
and low cost. Due to all these interesting characteristics, planar monopoles are extremely attractive
to be used in emerging UWB applications and growing research activity is being focused on them.
In UWB communication systems, one of key issues is the design of a compact antenna while
providing wide band characteristic over the whole operating band. Consequently, a number of
planar monopoles with different geometries have been experimentally characterized [2]–[4], and
automatic design methods have been developed to achieve the optimum planar shape [5], [6]. In
[7] and [8], two new small wideband planar monopole antennas with truncated ground plane using
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an L-shaped notch in the lower corner to achieve the maximum impedance bandwidth were
proposed. Moreover, other strategies to improve the impedance bandwidth that do not involve a
modification of the geometry of the planar antenna have been investigated [9], [10].
This letter focuses on a square monopole antenna for UWB applications, which combines
the circular-patch approach with an elliptical slot in circular patch and by adding T-shaped
parasitic strip in bottom layer and hook shaped slot in defected ground structure achieves two band
notch. By attaching a parasitic strip to the bottom layer of the antenna, a notched band of WLAN is
achieved. To realize another rejected band of WiMAX, pair of hook-shaped slots are etched on the
ground to form a defected ground plane. It is observed from the simulated results that the designed
antenna exhibits two stop-bands of 3-4 GHz and 5.1-5.6 GHz, while maintaining wideband
performance from 2 GHz to over 14 GHz for VSWR < 2, covering the entire UWB frequency
band. In addition, the proposed antenna has a small size planar structure (24 × 26 × 0.8 mm3) and
an omnidirectional pattern across the whole operating band.
Fig. 1: Geometry of proposed antenna

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Fig. 2: Simulated VSWR characteristics of the proposed antenna
Fig. 3: Simulated return loss characteristics of the proposed antenna.
2. ANTENNA DESIGN
Fig. 1 shows the configuration of the proposed wideband antenna which consists of a
circular patch with elliptical slot and a defected ground structure with hook shaped slots and a T-
shaped parasitic strip in bottom layer.
The proposed antenna, which has compact dimension of 24 mm × 26 mm (Lsub × Wsub), is
constructed on R04003 substrate with thickness of 0.8 mm and relative dielectric constant of 3.38.
The basic antenna structure consists of a square patch, a feed line and defected ground plane. The
square patch has a width W. The patch is connected to a feed line of width W5 and length L6, as
shown in Fig. 1. On the other side of the substrate, a conducting ground plane of width W and
length Lgnd is placed. The ground plane with hook shaped slots plays an important role in the
broad-band characteristics of this antenna because it helps match the patch with the feed line in a
wide range of frequencies. To notch the frequency band of WLAN, we use a T-shaped parasitic
strip in bottom layer and to notch the WiMAX band two hook-shaped slots in the ground plane is
used.
The optimal dimensions of the designed antenna are as follows: W = 24 mm, L = 26 mm,
W1 = 5 mm, W2 = 1 mm, W3 = 5 mm, W4 = 2.5 mm, W5 = 2 mm, L1 = 1.5 mm, L2 = 9 mm,
L3 = 2 mm, L4 = 3 mm, L5 = 0.4 mm, L6 = 7 mm and Lgnd = 8.5 mm.

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3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
In this section, the microstrip patch antenna with various design parameters is constructed,
and the numerical and experimental results of the input impedance and radiation characteristics are
presented and discussed. The parameters of this proposed antenna are studied by changing one
parameter at a time and fixing the others. The simulated results are obtained using Ansoft
simulation software high-frequency structure simulator (HFSS) [11]. Firstly, the Fig. 3 shows the
simulated VSWR characteristics. As shown in Fig. 2 there are two notch bands of 3-4 GHz and
5.1-5.6 GHz. Fig. 2, shows the simulated return loss characteristics of the proposed antenna.
4. CONCLUSION
In this paper, a novel, compact printed monopole antenna has been proposed for UWB
application. The simulated antenna satisfies the 10-dB return loss requirement from 2 to 11 GHz.
Two band notch of WLAN and WiMax are achieved.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author thanks to Director & colleagues of Electronics and Communication Department
of Meerut Institute of Technology, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India for their support and
Encouragements.
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AUTHORS DETAILS
Priya Shukla was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India on 19th
Oct. 1992. She is
pursuing B.Tech (ECE) from Meerut Institute of Technology, Meerut affiliated to
UPTU, Lucknow.
Aman Verma was born in Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh, India on 14th
Feb 1993. He is
pursuing B.Tech (ECE) from Meerut Institute of Technology, Meerut affiliated to
UPTU, Lucknow.
Vidushi was born in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India on 29th
Dec. 1993. She is pursuing
B.Tech (ECE) from Meerut Institute of Technology; Meerut affiliated to UPTU,
Lucknow.
Neha was born in Najibabad, Uttar Pradesh, India on 6th
Feb 1994. She is pursuing
B.Tech (ECE) from Meerut Institute of Technology; Meerut affiliated to UPTU,
Lucknow.
Kuldeep Singh Naruka was born in Jodhpur, Rajashtan, India on 1st
July 1985. He
obtained B.Tech from UPTU, Lucknow, M.Tech from SVSU, Meerut. He joined as a
lecturer in the Dept. of ECE in Meerut Institute of Technology, Meerut in 2009. He is
at present working as Asst. Prof. in the same Dept. His area of interest is RF and
Microwave Engineering. He got Six years of teaching experience. He has published
five research papers in International Journals and Conferences till this date.