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choices in the type and position of reactive components. The proposed
method has been successfully applied in designing monopole antenna
for a mobile handset satisfying GSM900/UMTS2100/WiBro/Blue-
tooth requirements.
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CKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors would like to thank RadiNa Inc. Ltd. in Korea and the
Brain Korea 21 project for manufacture and measurement support.
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Band-Notched UWB Antenna Incorporating a Microstrip
Open-Loop Resonator
James R. Kelly, Peter S. Hall, and Peter Gardner
Abstract—Ultrawideband (UWB) systems require band notch filters
in order to prevent sensitive components, within the front-end of the
receiver, from being overloaded by strong signals. Recently, it has been
shown that these filters can be integrated into the UWB antenna, to great
advantage. This communication presents a new method for forming a
notch band within the frequency response of a UWB antenna. An open
loop notch band resonator is located on the back of the substrate, used
to support the UWB monopole. The act of separating the resonator from
the antenna means that they can now be designed in isolation, using the
standard approach described in the literature, and then combined. A
prototype was constructed and good agreement has been obtained between
simulation and measurement. The radiation patterns are consistent over
the frequency range of interest.
Index Terms—Band-stop filters, coplanar waveguides, monopole an-
tennas, ultrawideband (UWB) antennas.
I. I
NTRODUCTION
There is much interest in the use of ultrawideband (UWB) signals
(from 3.1 to 10.6 GHz) for short range, high-data rate communications
[3]. UWB radar systems have been used to improve the detection of
early stage breast cancer [1], [2]. UWB ground penetrating radar can
be used to detect mines and damaged utility pipes. Interference from
a strong narrowband signal, within the UWB band, could overload the
receiver and band-stop filters have been suggested to mitigate for this.
This filter might be a separate component, connected in series with the
antenna [4], which will increase the size, weight, and complexity of
the system or it could be integrated into the antenna’s feed-line [5].
A substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) cavity filter is used in [5],
within the feed-line of an UWB monopole antenna, but antenna per-
formance degradations result. An alternative is to integrate some form
of band-stop filter into the radiating element. The majority of designs
use a resonant slot within the planar monopole antenna [6]–[15]. Un-
fortunately most of the current solutions are limited by having: 1) poor
return loss, i.e.,
>
1.5 dB [5], [7], [13], [14], [25] or
>
2.5 dB [9], [10],
[12], [16]; 2) poor gain suppression, i.e.,
<
5 dB [10], [14] or
<
10 dB
[6], [12], [13], [16], [17]; 3) or low quality factor (
<
10) [14], [15] at
the notch frequency. A further disadvantage associated with some of
the designs is that the geometry is complex and/or three dimensional
[5], [7], [8], [11]–[13], [15], [17], [19].
This communication presents a new approach for producing a notch
band within an UWB antenna. The key innovation is to situate the notch
band resonator on the rear of the substrate which is used to support
the UWB antenna. This change of approach enables one to design the
resonator and antenna in isolation, before combining them later. The
Manuscript received March 03, 2010; revised November 10, 2010; accepted
December 28, 2010. Date of publication May 10, 2011; date of current version
August 03, 2011. This work was supported by the U.K. Engineering and Phys-
ical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under Grant EP/F017502/1.
J. R. Kelly is with the Department of Electronic and Electrical En-
gineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, U.K. (e-mail:
james.kelly@sheffield.ac.uk).
P. S. Hall and P. Gardner are with the Department of Electronic, Electrical
and Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT,
U.K..
Color versions of one or more of the figures in this communication are avail-
able online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.
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