Design and Development of Compact Printed Ultra Wideband Antennas

Three novel compact UWB antennas, suitable for portable applications, are designed and characterized namely Ground modified monopole, Serrated monopole and Triangular slot. The performance of these designs have been studied using standard simulation tools used in industry/academia and they have been experimentally verified. Antenna design guidelines are also deduced by accounting the resonances in each structure. One of the major contributions of the book lies in the analysis of the frequency and time-domain response of the designed UWB antennas to confirm their suitability for portable pulsed-UWB systems. Techniques to avoid narrowband interference by engraving narrow slot resonators on the antenna is also proposed and their effect on a nano-second pulse have been investigated.