Analysis and Investigation of a Cantor Set Fractal Uwb Antenna with a Notch-band Characteristic

A coplanar waveguide (CPW) fed ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna with a notch band characteristic is presented in the paper. The radiation patch of the proposed UWB antenna is designed using cantor set fractal technology. The bandwidth is broadened by setting two symmetrical triangular tapered corners at the bottom of the wide slot of the proposed UWB antenna. The notched band characteristic is achieved by employing a T-shaped tuning stub at the top of the wide slot. The notched band can be controlled by adjusting the length and the width of the T-shaped tuning stub to give tunable notched band function. The proposed cantor set fractal wide slot UWB antenna has been designed in details and optimized. Experimental and numerical results show that the proposed antenna, with compact size of 26 × 21mm2, has an impedance bandwidth range from 2.8 GHz to 11GHz for voltage standing-wave ratio (VSWR) less than 2, except the notch band frequency 5.0 GHz–6.3GHz for HIPERLAN/2 and IEEE 802.11a (5.1 GHz–5.9 GHz).