Title :
A compact broadband MIMO antenna for mobile handset applications
Author :
Zhou, Xiang ; Li, RongLin ; Tentzeris, Manos M.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., South China Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou, China
Abstract :
A compact broadband MIMO antenna array is developed in this paper. The omnidirectional radiation pattern of the antenna elements allows the array to receive a wide range of multipath signals, thus increases the SNR of MIMO systems. It is found by simulation and measurement that the array has an excellent performance under the MIMO propagation environment in a wide bandwidth (more than 40% at 2.1GHz) with the correlation coefficient below -15 dB and the capacity loss less than 0.7 bits/s/Hz. The total size is only 50mmx67.2mmx0.254mm, suitable for the mobile handset applications.
Keywords :
MIMO communication; broadband antennas; mobile handsets; MIMO propagation environment; MIMO system; SNR; antenna element; compact broadband MIMO antenna array; correlation coefficient; mobile handset application; omnidirectional radiation pattern; Antenna arrays; Arrays; Broadband antennas; Correlation; MIMO; Mutual coupling;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Toronto, ON
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4967-5
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2010.5560940
