Integrated design of filtering antenna with high selectivity and improved performance for L-band applications

Abstract

An integrated design of compact filtering antenna having high selectivity and suppressed unwanted harmonics is proposed in this paper. The proposed filtering antenna is obtained by integrating a modified elliptic-shaped monopole antenna with a modified interdigital bandpass filter (IBPF). At first, a modified elliptic-shaped monopole antenna is designed and investigated through numerical simulation and experimentally. Further, the modified IBPF reported in the literature is integrated with the proposed monopole antenna to achieve good passband selectivity and suppressed unwanted harmonics for the proposed filtering antenna. The proposed filtering antenna is analysed through numerical simulation software. The simulated −10 dB reflection coefficient bandwidth of the proposed filtering antenna covers the frequency range 1.01–1.96 GHz with improved band-edge selectivity and unwanted harmonic suppression up to 8 GHz (= 5.4 f0, where f0 is the centre frequency of passband). It has nearly stable omnidirectional radiation patterns over the whole frequency band. The proposed filtering antenna was fabricated and experimentally tested. The experimental results are nearly in agreement with corresponding numerical simulation results. The proposed filtering antenna can be a suitable candidate for various L-band wireless communication applications.