Power patterns in the frequency domain are usually used to describe the antenna performance in narrowband communication systems; however, they are not sufficient for ultra wideband (UWB) antennas in wideband communication systems. In this paper, energy pattern and energy gain are introduced to describe the performance of UWB antennas. Numerical simulations and measurements are used to demonstra...

A novel two layered UWB antenna is proposed and designed to resonate at the full range of UWB frequencies’ spectrums from 3.1 GHz up to 10.6 GHz, well below -14.0dB reference levels of return loss. The size of the UWB antenna is small, with width of 31.0 mm and length of 25.0 mm, and the two layers of FR4 board thickness are 0.5 mm (top layer) and 1.6 mm (bottom layer).The antenna radiates omni...

Ultra-wideband (UWB) communication techniques have attracted a great interest in both academia and industry in the past few years for applications in short-range wireless mobile systems. This is due to the potential advantages of UWB transmissions such as low power, high rate, immunity to multipath propagation, less complex transceiver hardware, and low interference. However, tremendous R&D eff...

UWB (Ultra Wide Band) technology is a reliable transmission scheme for wireless communication with high data rates. UWB is defined as signals with fractional band width more than 20% of its central frequency or as signals with bandwidth more than 500MHZ. UWB can be characterized with ultra-short duration pulses called monopulses which has excellent immunity in interference from sensitivity or m...

Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology has gone through some revolutionary changes this year, including the legalization of the technology in the US for imaging systems, vehicular radar systems, and communications and measurement systems. The allocation of 7.5 GHz worth of new, unlicensed spectrum that can be used for communications and measurement techniques, in particular, has sparked a renewed inte...

To enhance the performance, various methods have been applied to design the antenna. Still the scope remains unchanged in antenna research. Antenna has a prime role in wireless communication. In recent years, researchers have focused on improvement of the UWB antennas. UWB has attractive merits compact size, low cost, resistant to severe multipath and jamming, ease of fabrication, and good omni...

With the ambitious aim to exploit the specific advantages of ultra-wideband (UWB) radio sensors for medical applications the project ultraMEDIS has been designed. The project focuses on the combination of UWB radar with magnetic resonance imaging, UWB radar based breast cancer detection, identification of various physiological signatures and the development of appropriate UWB antennas to accomp...

A novel planar ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna with triple-notched bands using triple-mode stub loaded resonator (SLR) is presented in this paper. The basic UWB antenna consists of a circularshaped radiating element, a 50Ω microstrip feed line, and a partially truncated ground plane. Then, the resonance properties of the SLR are studied. Results reveal that the multiple-mode property of the SLR ca...

Chipless ultra-wideband (UWB) has been proposed as a low-cost alternative for radiofrequency identification (RFID). In this paper, a comprehensible theoretical introduction to time-domain operation of a UWB RFID tag is described, and a circuit model is proposed. For commercial applications low-cost RFID readers are demanded. To this end, this paper addresses the measurement of time-coded UWB ch...

In this paper, the performance of DS-UWB and THUWB for a single-user link are compared for a data rate of 100 Mbps using the newly proposed, realistic UWB channel model from IEEE P802.15. The performance of suboptimal, fractionally spaced (FS), coherent Rake receivers with a pulse-matched filter is numerically evaluated with two channel estimation algorithms. DS-UWB and TH-UWB with antipodal mo...