Reduced size elliptic UWB antenna with inscribed third iteration sierpinski triangle for on-body applications

In this article, a combination of an elliptical UWB monopole with a series of Sierpinski triangle iterations inscribed in the planarized radiator is used to develop a highly-impedance stability UWB antenna, performing from 700 MHz to 9 GHz. The fractal iteration is introduced in order to obtain a radiator size reduction and to improve the current distribution stability. With this implementation, a 31% radiator area reduction is obtained compared to a conventional circular or elliptical radiator. The antenna impedance matching is maintained over the entire bandwidth, even when an external lossy dielectric body is around or even in contact to the radiator. The antenna presents quasi-omnidirectional radiation patterns and a gain around 0 dBi and group delay variations lower than 2 ns, making it suitable for short-pulse communications systems and on-body communications applications.