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Miniaturization of UWB Antennas and its Influence on Antenna-Transceiver Performance in Impulse-UWB Communication

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In this paper, a co-design methodology and the effect of antenna miniaturization in an impulse UWB system/transceiver is presented. Modified small-size printed tapered monopole antennas (PTMA) are designed in different scaling sizes. In order to evaluate the performance and functionality of these antennas, the effect of each antenna is studied in a given impulse UWB system. The UWB system includes an impulse UWB transmitter and two kinds of UWB receivers are considered, one based on correlation detection and one on energy detection schemes. A tunable low-power Impulse UWB transmitter is designed and the benefit of co-designing it with the PTMA antenna is investigated for the 3.1–10.6 GHz band. A comparison is given between a 50\(\Omega \) design and a co-designed version. Our antenna/transceiver co-design methodology shows improvement in both transmitter efficiency and whole system performance. The simulation results show that the PTMA antenna and its miniaturized geometries are suitable for UWB applications.

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The K.U.Leuven authors acknowledge the financial support of the Flemish IWT under the Pinballs SBO project.

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  1. ESAT, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Soheil Radiom, Hadi Aliakbarian, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch & George Gielen

  2. iPack VINN Excellence Center, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

    Soheil Radiom, Majid Baghaei-Nejad & Li-Rong Zheng

  3. Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran

    Majid Baghaei-Nejad

  4. World Intelligent Industries Co., Tehran, Iran

    Soheil Radiom

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Radiom, S., Baghaei-Nejad, M., Aliakbarian, H. et al. Miniaturization of UWB Antennas and its Influence on Antenna-Transceiver Performance in Impulse-UWB Communication. Wireless Pers Commun 71, 2913–2935 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-012-0979-6

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