A dual band notch planar SWB antenna with two vertical sleeves on slotted ground plane

This paper presents the design of a novel and compact microstrip-fed monopole super wideband (SWB) antenna with dual band-notch characteristics. The antenna impedance bandwidth (BW) extends from 3.2 reaching to 40 GHz. Moreover, the antenna inherently reject both the WLAN and X-band satellite communication systems that interfere with SWB spectrum. The antenna is analyzed using two software packages: high frequency structure simulator (HFSS) and computer simulation technology (CST) with relatively good agreement between results obtained from the two packages.