A Novel UWB Antenna with Dual Band-Notched Characteristics

In this article, started from analyzing the basic principle of band-notched characteristics, a feasibly method used for band-notched antenna is demonstrated and the equivalent circuit for this method is designed. A novel UWB antenna is designed. Based on this method, two stubs which can be equivalent to shorted stubs in parallel configuration are added to realize dual band-notched characteristics. Simulated and measured results all show that the UWB antenna yields an impendence bandwidth of 2.0-10.6 GHz by defining VSWR <= 2, and two obvious band-notched functions (3.27-3.83 GHz, 4.60-5.90 GHz) occur at the working bandwidth of WIMAX (3.3-3.7 GHz) and HiperLAN/2 (5.15-5.35 GHz, 5.47-5.725 GHz), so the electromagnetic interference between UWB application and WIMAX, HiperLAN/2 can be suppressed.