The need for development of microstrip patch antennas for ultra-wideband (UWB) communications has been very well recognized.UWB antennas are mainly used for wearable MIMO sytems,weather mesurements and also UWB radar applications. Patch antenna can be a good choice for handheld devices in UWB applications.There was a great success in finding a suitable structure for mobile applications.This pap...

In this paper, an UWB-MIMO antenna with frequency selective surface (FSS) decoupling structure is proposed. To realize antenna system miniaturization and integration, silicon material is applied as substrate. The proposed antenna becomes a very compact construction with dimension of 38.2 × 26.6 × 0.4 mm. The proposed broadband FSS unit consists of four split rectangles and one I-shaped strip. T...

Ultra-wideband (UWB) technique has become one of the most fascinating technologies with various antennas. It has the merits of high speed transmission rate, low power consumption and simple hardware configuration over conventional wireless communication systems. The research and development of the UWB systems including antennas have been widely performed [1-5]. Recently, UWB systems have focuse...

This contribution presents the work in progress towards an active UWB antenna array with beamforming capabilities. Small pulse generators were designed, manufactured and placed directly underneath small uwb monopoles. We show preliminary results of the first measurement campaign with a single antenna and a group antenna in the time domain.

A method is presented which is aimed at increasing bandwidth of the tapered slot antenna by just finding the optimum tapering profile of the antenna without the need to increase its size rather than decrease. In this paper, an ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna with a compact size of 16 mm x 20 mm is proposed for USB dongle applications. Theproposed antenna has been designed on FR4 substrate dielectr...

Recently, microwave ultra-wideband (UWB) technology has attracted much attention in high speed wireless communications, imaging and radar applications. Antennas with very wide impedance bandwidth and stable radiations are required for such systems. Among many UWB antennas, planar types are low profile, light weight, low cost and suitable for mobile devices [1]. However, the planar antennas may ...

Ultra Wideband (UWB) has a number of applications that make it attractive for a variety of applications such as microwave imaging, wireless communications, ground penetrating radars, remote sensing and phased arrays. This paper offered the design of a tapered slot Vivaldi antenna for ultra-wideband application using FR4 substrate which has relative permittivity of 4.4. The Vivaldi Antenna is de...

We present a compact ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna integrated with sharp notches with a detailed analysis of the mutual coupling of the multiple notch resonators. By utilizing complementary split ring resonators (CSRR) on the radiating semi-circular patch, we achieve the sharp notch-filtering of various bands within the UWB band without increasing the antenna size. The notched frequency bands in...

Recently, wireless-PAN systems using a UWB technique are considered. Antennas such as a planar trapezoidal monopole or dipole antenna for a UWB was developed.[1],[2] Since a 5 GHz band is allocated for wireless LAN service such as an IEEE802.11a, a UWB antenna should have a band notch to avoid an interference between two systems. To fulfil this requirement, several UWB antennas having a band no...

A low-cost and portable vector network analyzer (VNA) which covered operating frequency between 1MHz to 3GHz is used for vector reflection coefficient and standing wave ratio (swr) of the various microstrip antennas. This paper presents measurements of various ultra wideband (uwb) microstrip antennas for applications in biomedical field. Selection of antenna is an important key for detection of...