In this article, we present a new design of a coplanar waveguide fed (CPW-fed) ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna with dual band-notched characteristics. Two notched frequency bands are achieved by using two inverted U-shaped stepped impedance resonators. The proposed antenna can operate from 2.82 to 11 GHz (118%), defined by VSWR< 2, except two notched bands around 3.5 GHz (WiMAX) and 5.5 GHz (WLAN)...

Different fractal based structures have been widely used in numerous antenna designs for various applications. In this paper, a printed slot antenna has been introduced as a candidate for use in the dual band wireless communication applications. The antenna slot structure is in the form of a Sierpinski gasket of the first iteration. The antenna has been fed with 50Ohm microstrip transmission li...

Body Centric Wireless Communication (BCWC) has been topic of much research in recent years. In this manuscript, a novel low-cost microstrip patch antenna is designed for on-/off-body communication with a dual-band operation. The proposed structure exhibits a monopole-like radiation pattern at 2.45 GHz and a broadside radiation at 4.8 GHz, simultaneously. Lateral dimensions of 42 mm × 46 mm and ...

In this paper, two miniaturized (20 × 20mm2) coplanar waveguide fed slot antennas are proposed. Both the antennas are characterized by ultra wide impedance bandwidth while one of them has an additional narrow band near 2.5GHz. The radiating element of the proposed antennas is a modified rectangular geometry which is excited by a 50 ohm line. The slot in the ground plane is stair case shape for ...

The ground plane plays an important role on the performance of a planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA). In this regard, the ground plane modification using slots is proposed in this research to obtain a dual band antenna for WiMAX application. Popular optimization techniques, as genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO), were used to design the shape of the ground plane in order t...

In this paper, a novel dual notch bands Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) antenna for WLAN and WiMAX applications is presented. The antenna contains a taper rectangular monopole antenna with new feed line which is designed and modified for 2–12 GHz. To achieve notch band at WLAN frequencies, different methods are compared such as L-shape slots for one notch or dual rings in notch designing. On the other ha...

This paper introduces the design of a dual-band internal F-PIFA (Fractal Planar Inverted F-antenna) as a candidate for use in the dual band WLAN (wireless local area network) MIMO (multi-input multi-output) applications. At first, the 4th iteration Koch’s fractal geometry has been applied to the edges of the conventional rectangular patch structure to design a single compact antenna with a dual...

Development of small antennas for mobile phones has received a lot of attention during the last few years due to size reduction of the handsets, requirements to keep the amount of RF power absorbed by the user below standardized levels regardless of the handset size, and introduction of multimode phones. Single-band and dual-band phones in which the external whip or helix antenna has been repla...

A prototype for a dual-band metamaterial-inspired antenna is presented. The antenna consists of a dual-band dipole placed between two meta-surfaces, which are tuned to operate at both dipole bands. In this way, the dipole radiates at a different half-space at each frequency band. Antenna gains as high as 6.1dB and 7.6dB have been measured at the lowand high-frequency bands, respectively, while ...