Very Small Dual Band-Notched Rectangular Slot Antenna With Enhanced Impedance Bandwidth

A very small coplanar waveguide (CPW)-fed rectangular slot antenna with dual band-notched characteristics for super ultrawideband (UWB-3) applications is proposed. This antenna consists of a rectangular slot, a beveled rectangular patch, two S-shaped slits cut in the ground plane and an elliptical ring slot (ERS) etched in the patch. The corners of a simple rectangular patch are beveled to improve the impedance bandwidth, especially at the middle frequencies of the band. In addition, a pair of semicircle slots is etched in the ground plane to enhance the bandwidth to more than 23 GHz. A pair of S-shaped slits connected to the rectangular slot, and an ERS cut in the beveled rectangular patch, is employed to create band-notched performances in WiMAX and WLAN spectrum, respectively. The proposed antenna has a very small size of 15 x 15 mm(2), and therefore, it is one of the smallest UMB slot antennas that have been reported until now, and provide a very wide impedance bandwidth from 2.6 to more than 23 GHz for VSWR < 2 with dual band-notched properties.