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Abstract

In this paper, a novel band-notched wide slot antenna for UWB applications has been proposed. The antenna consists of a circularly slotted square ground, two wide-slots separated by a conductive ring, and an equiangular spiral feed line, which excites the antenna through traveling-wave. Experimental prototypes are fabricated and tested. The obtained results indicate that the proposed antenna has a small size and offers a broad bandwidth from 3.1 to 12 GHz, with a band notch from 3.4 to 3.9 GHz. The radiation patterns display nearly omnidirectional performance and the measured group delays are within ±1 nanosecond except for the notch band.

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Dr. Jing-Xiu Huang

Dr. Fu-Shun Zhang

Dr. Ya-Bing Yang

Dr. Yan Wang