Compact multiband planar monopole antenna for Bluetooth, LTE, and reconfigurable UWB applications including X‐band and Ku‐band wireless communications

In this article, a small-printed Bluetooth/LTE/UWB/X-band/Ku-band monopole antenna with high rejection triple band-notch is presented. Notched bands include WiMAX (IEEE802.16 3.30-3.80 GHz), WLAN IEEE802.11a/h/j/n (5.15-5.35 GHz, 5.25-5.35 GHz, 5.47-5.725 GHz, and 5.725-5.825 GHz), and downlink satellite system (7.1-7.9 GHz). By including inverted T-shaped stub and etching two C-shaped slots on the radiating patch, triple band-notch function is obtained with measured high band rejection (VSWR = 14.59 at 3.69 GHz, VSWR = 39.40 at 5.42 GHz, and VSWR = 6.43 at 7.57 GHz) and covers a UWB useable fractional bandwidth of 157.75% (2.285-19.35 GHz = 17.065 GHz). Reconfigurable characteristics are obtained using PIN diodes, which control the individual notched bands. Proposed antenna is printed on Rogers RT/duroid5880 substrate with compact dimensions of 20 × 22 mm2. Proposed antenna finds its applications for Bluetooth, LTE, UWB, other multiple wireless applications for close range radar (8-12 GHz) in X-band, and satellite communication in Ku-Band with omnidirectional pattern in H-plane.