In this paper, we have investigated a printed modified circular disc monopole antenna with cross-shaped slot in radiating patch for UWB applications. The proposed antenna covers the entire UWB band (i.e., 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz) except the frequency band of IEEE 802.11a (i.e., from 5.15GHz to 5.83GHz). This UWB antenna will be of use in environments where IEEE 802.11a WLAN devices are already in ope...

With the virtual enforcement of the required boundary condition (BC) at the end of a slot antenna, the area occupied by the resonant antenna can be reduced. To achieve the required virtual BC, the two short circuits at the end of the resonant slot are replaced by some reactive BC, including inductive or capacitive loadings. The application of these loads is shown to reduce the size of the reson...

Reconfigurable micro-strip patch antenna with a U-slot is proposed for wearable fabric applications. Fabric substrate is used for the proposed antenna for manufactured and designed to steer the beam directions at the operation frequency of 7. 0 GHz. For design the proposed antenna the U-shaped slot and a proximity-coupled feeding technique are applied. By configuring two artificial switches bet...

The polarization-sensitive cross slot antenna recently constructed by Papathanakos [1] was used to investigate the possibility of designing a polarization-sensitive bolometric detector. A bolometer or other absorber located near a polarizationsensitive antenna may couple to the antenna, preferentially absorbing electromagnetic waves of the polarization radiated by the antenna. Lock-in amplifica...

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 ...

Abstract—A novel compact open-ended L-shaped slot antenna with asymmetrical rectangular patch is demonstrated and designed for UWB applications. With the open-ended L-shaped slot and an asymmetrical rectangular patch fed by the micro-strip line, multiple resonant frequencies are excited and merged to form a measured widen operating bandwidth of 3.01 ∼ 11.30GHz with 10 dB return loss. The fracti...

A tri-band slot loaded microstrip antenna is proposed. The tri-band characteristics of antenna are achieved by incorporating a combination of symmetrical Y-shaped and asymmetrical U-shaped slot. The Y-shaped slot is placed symmetrically where as U-shaped slot is placed asymmetrically to the center of the patch to achieve the desired tri-band characteristics. The return loss characteristics show...

A coplanar waveguide (CPW) fed Ultra Wideband (UWB) slot antenna with reconfigurable rejection bands is presented in this paper. The antenna has a rectangular slot with triangular structure that acts as a tuning stub with CPW feed. The notch band is achieved by inserting a rectangular slot in the ground plane with a length of λ/2. The rejection of the bands 3.1 GHz – 3.9 GHz, 4 GHz–5.3 GHz and ...

A novel uniplanar slot dipole antenna fed by a coplanar waveguide (CPW) is proposed for dual-band operation. The frequency ratio between the first spurious and fundamental modes of the slot dipole antenna can be conveniently adjusted with the use of four slot stubs introduced on its two arms. Furthermore, the radiation patterns at the first spurious mode are modified by adding four parasitic sl...