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Isolation and Gain Improvement of a Rectangular Notch UWB-MIMO Antenna
Anees Abbas1, Niamat Hussain1, Md Abu Sufian1
1Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Korea.
Abstract:
This paper presents the performance improvement of a co-planar waveguide rectangularly notched UWB-MIMO antenna. The isolation and gain of the antenna are enhanced by using a parasitic isolator. The antenna consists of four microstrip patch antennas and an isolator. The UWB characteristic of the antenna is achieved by truncating the lower ends of the radiating patch by a semicircle. The rectangular notch characteristic is obtained by adding two electromagnetic bandgap structures on the backside of the antenna, which is attached to the radiator via shorting pin. The performance, especially the decoupling of the MIMO antenna is improved by using a novel parasitic decoupler, which is placed between the antennas to receive uncorrelated signals. The decoupling structure consists of a square shape metallic element with a circular slot inside and a half-semicircle slot edged at each corner. Four rectangular metallic stubs are extended from opposite parallel sides to improve further isolation. The simulated and measured results show that the antenna has a rectangular notch band (5.25-5.85 GHz) across the working band of 3-12.8 GHz. In addition, the antenna has a planar structure with an overall size of 60 × 60 × 1.52 mm3 and offers stable gain, reduced mutual coupling (<-21 dB), and lower envelop correlation (<0.001).
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