Optimal Design of an Ultra-Wideband Antenna with the Irregular Shape on Radiator using Particle Swarm Optimization

An ultra-wideband antenna with an irregular shape radiator for ultra-wideband applications has been designed by particle swarm optimization along with the simulator, HFSS. The proposed antenna design process is automated. Also, the better results can be obtained efficiently. The proposed antenna is fed by a coplanar waveguide line. The optimized antenna has a compact substrate size of 34.0 mm by 33.35 mm. Results show that the optimized irregular shape of the proposed antenna outperforms the antennas with uniform rectangular shapes in impedance matching. The optimized antenna can cover the spectrum of ultra-wideband (3.1 GHz - 10.6 GHz). The current distributions are investigated for describing the antenna characteristics. Moreover, the proposed UWB antenna has good characteristics of radiation, transmission, and impedance bandwidth.