“…Reviewing the literature shows that there are few ways for monopole planar antennas to achieve band-notched characteristics. The most popular approach is cutting different shaped slots from the radiating patch, from the ground plane, or from the feed line, that is, U-shaped slot [7], a Hilbert-curve shaped slot [8], cutting a wide line [9], T-shaped slot [10], defected ground structure (DGS) [11], semicircular slot [12], a bent slot or C-shaped slot [13][14][15], split ring in the ground plane [16], and slot line in the feed line [17]). Another way consists of loading diverse parasitic elements on the antenna, such as parasitic elements rear or near the radiating element [18][19][20][21][22][23], and near the feed line [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33], to generate the band-notched 2 International Journal of Antennas and Propagation feature, which acts as resonator when the length of strip is about a half or a quarter of the guided wavelength at the desired notch frequency.…”