A Compact Novel Tapered U Slot

Ultra-Wideband Antenna
Daniel Albornoz A,Gabriela Gomez B, Darwin Vargas A
Students of the School of Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications Network
Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo, Riobamba, Ecuador
ldalbornoz18@gmail.com
gabygomez926@gmail.com
darwinv104@gmail.com

Abstract- This paper presents the proposal for the de-
sign of a novel, compact and miniaturized tapered U Slot
UWB printed monopole micro strip antenna for wireless
applications. The planar, small and thin UWB antenna
fed by a single 50ohms micro strip line with truncated
ground plane is excited by a coaxial SMA connector. The
correct feed position is determined for impedance mat-
ching. The simulation was done using Ansoft Designer 3
software. The antenna will fabricated and this will deve-
loped in material FR4 with a thickness of 1.6mm and the
bandwidth was expected to be 3 to 14GHz.
I. INTRODUCTION
In the last decade, Ultra-wideband (UWB) has
come up as a revolutionary and contemporary wi-
reless technology which has generated a great deal
of interest for use in the industry and academia.
Ultra- Wideband (UWB) commonly refers to signal
or system that either has a large relative band-
width or a large absolute bandwidth[1]. The rapid
progress of UWB as a high data rate wireless com-
munication technology has mainly been spurred on
the release of a bandwidth of 7.5 GHz (from 3.1GHz
to 10.66GHz) for ultra-wideband (UWB) applica-
tions by the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC), by far the largest spectrum allocation for
unlicensed use the FCC has ever granted[2].
monopole antennas) are very good for UWB tech-
nology based cost effective systems[1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
A microwave antenna that introduces a U-slot
or slit into a rectangular radiating patch is a simple
and efficient method for obtaining the desired com-
pactness and multiband and broadband, Micro strip
antennas are suffer from low impedance bandwidth
characteristics To avoid this suffering of antennas,
there have been various bandwidth enhancement
techniques like coplanar parasitic patches, stacked
patches, or novel shapes patches such as the U and
H -shaped patches[9] .
The design of a tapered U slot printed monopole
micro strip antenna is reported in ultra-wideband
for wireless applications in this paper. First the
planar PCB antenna design is introduced and des-
cribed. The design steps of the antenna are pre-
sented. Also the various design considerations and
dimensions are summarized. The UWB antenna is
realized on commercially available low cost subs-
trate of FR4 and UWB performance parameters
of return loss, radiation pattern, group delay and
current distribution are studied. Finally the simu-
lated and measured results are compared. Further
investigations are done on the same substrate to
increase the compactness of the antenna and in the
process realize and fabricate a novel antenna.

A good candidate for UWB applications are

printed monopole antennas (PMAs) due to their
compactness, light weight and simple structure.
These can be realized easily on the printed circuit
boards and can be integrated with other compo-
nents on PCB. Many kinds of printed monopole
antennas have been designed and presented in a
number of research papers. The PMAs (printed
II. UWB ANTENNA DESIGN
It is proposed to make an antenna which to
works in the band 3 to 14GHz. The antenna will
be fabricated and this will be developed in material
FR4 with primitive dielectric of 4.4 a thickness of
1.6mm. The geometry of the proposed antenna is

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show in Fig. 1 (a) and (b). The development steps The antenna according to the article “A Com-
of the proposed antenna design are shown as 3D pact Novel Tapered U Slot Ultra-Wideband Anten-
simulation models of the antenna in Fig.2. na” proposes the following measures but these will
be optimized in the development of this proposal.

TABLE I

Detailed parameters for the proposed UWB antenna

Fig.1 Geometry for the proposed antenna (a) front view (b) back

view.

III. SIMULATION

Simulations have been carried out with the An-

soft DESIGNER to determine the UWB antenna?s
performance parameters of impedance bandwidth
(VSWR<2), radiation patterns and impedance pa-
rameter. Also the antenna behavior is studied. It
should also be remembered that for the various cal-
culations made it was specified that a frequency f0
= 2,2 GHz would be worked.
Analysis

Fig. 3 shows the reflection coefficient of the an-

tenna where it can be seen that, the return loss S
is approximately. -41 dB at a frequency of 9.3GHz,
Fig. 2 DESIGNER simulation design of proposed antenna final while the bandwidth is around 2.35 GHz to 14.7
design view GHz.

In most of the cases micro strip UWB antennas

are fed by micro strip transmission line or by copla-
nar waveguide (CPW) feeding. In this case lumped
port excitation is provided in the simulation which
touches the radiator and the partial ground plane
as shown in Fig.3. The micro strip transmission line
feeding is used for the convenience it provides in fa-
brication. The antenna is fed using a 50Ω micro strip
line whose width is calculated using the well-known.
Fig. 3 U Slot antenna reflection coefficient.

Micro strip line design equations[10]. The U slot Fig. 4 shows the parameter VSWR, which des-
radiating patch and transmission line are connec- cribes the behavior of the voltage in a stationary
ted by tapered edges or bevel slots to obtain better wave phenomenon. It was observed that as the
impedance matching. VSWR approaches the operating frequency of 9.3
GHz it tends to a value of 0 dB, which means that

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the reflected power will be minimal. This perfect
impedance coupling was demonstrated by the im-
pedance plot in Fig. 5, where an actual impedance
of 50Ω and an imaginary of 0Ω are observed.
Fig. 4 VSWR antenna parameter U Slot.
Fig. 5 Transmitting antenna output impedance
Fig. 6 Radiation diagram of electric field antenna U Slot
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