A CPW-fed cross-shaped monopole antenna for 5GHz WLAN and higher band UWB applications

This paper presents the analysis of simple, compact, CPW- fed cross(flower) shaped monopole antenna with -10 dB return loss (VSWR<2),band width from 5.1 GHz to 13 GHz for 5-GHz WLAN and higher band UWB applications. The antenna is designed on an inexpensive FR4-expoxy substrate with dielectric constante ¿
_r
= 4.4 and with a size of 30 mm × 20 mm × 1.5 mm.