Design and development of a small compact ultra wideband antenna

Abstract

In this paper the design of a novel and compact U slot UWB printed monopole microstrip antenna of size 19.2 × 28.8 mm2 has been presented for wireless applications. The planar, small and thin UWB antenna design consists of a U slot radiator fed by a single 50Ω microstrip line with truncated ground plane is excited by a coaxial SMA connector. The simulations are done using the Ansoft High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS) software tool. The simulated results of impedance bandwidth are well supported by measurement. The measured group delay and radiation pattern results are also presented and performance of the antenna is analyzed/discussed.