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A Miniaturised Monopole Wideband Antenna with Reconfigurable Band Rejection for WLAN/WiMAX

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This paper proposes a tuneable band-rejected miniaturised monopole antenna. The band-notching was achieved by printing an inner chorded crescent shape over the surface of the substrate. By placing a small varactor between the inner and outer arches, the centre frequency of each notch can be individually shifted downwards. The design of the proposed structure has a controllable rejection in the range from 2.38 to 3.87 GHz maintaining a wideband performance from 1.5 to 5 GHz based on VSWR ≤ 2. The antenna prototype was fabricated and tested. Simulated and measured results are performed and analysed. With a compact size, the proposed monopole antenna may well work as an internal antenna in a portable device.

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Acknowledgments

This work is carried out under the BENEFIC project (CA505), a project labelled within the framework of CATRENE, the EUREKA cluster for Application and Technology Research in Europe on NanoElectronics, co-financed by the European Funds for Regional Development (FEDER) by COMPETE – Programa Operacional do Centro (PO Centro) of QREN [Project number 38887 – BENEFIC. Also, this work is supported by the VALUE project (PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013 and, through its first author, by the grant of the Fundacão para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT - Portugal), with the reference number: SFRH/BPD/95110/2013.

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  1. Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal

    Issa T. E. Elfergani, Abubakar Sadiq Hussaini & Jonathan Rodriguez

  2. Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Jonathan Rodriguez

  3. Radio Frequency, Antennas, Propagation and Computational Electromagnetics Research Group, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, BD7 1DP, UK

    Abubakar Sadiq Hussaini, C. H. See & Raed Abd-Alhameed

  4. Engineering, Sport and Science (ESS) Academic Group, University of Bolton, BL5AB, Bolton, UK

    C. H. See

  5. School of Information Technology and Communications, American University of Nigeria, Yola, Nigeria

    Abubakar Sadiq Hussaini

  6. Escola Superior de Tecnologia - Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal

    Paulo Marques

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Elfergani, I.T.E., Hussaini, A.S., See, C.H., Rodriguez, J., Abd-Alhameed, R., Marques, P. (2015). A Miniaturised Monopole Wideband Antenna with Reconfigurable Band Rejection for WLAN/WiMAX. In: Mumtaz, S., Rodriguez, J., Katz, M., Wang, C., Nascimento, A. (eds) Wireless Internet. WICON 2014. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 146. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18802-7_40

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