Title :
Design of dual-element multi-band MIMO antenna for LTE-A, GPS and IEEE 802.11af applications
Author :
Bahu, M. Swagath ; Rajesh, A. ; Nakkeeran, R. ; Idayachandran, G.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. Eng., VIT Univ., Vellore, India
Abstract :
A cleft based dual element Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna covering multiple wireless communication bands is designed for Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A), Global Positioning System (GPS) and IEEE 802.11af wireless applications. Fractal geometry with Minkowski island kind of curve is used at the Defected Ground-plane Structure (DGS) to improve the isolation between the antennas. The correlation coefficient value is less than 0.04 for all the frequency bands. The overall size of the MIMO antenna is 50 × 100 × 1.56 mm3.
Keywords :
Global Positioning System; Long Term Evolution; MIMO communication; antenna arrays; defected ground structures; multifrequency antennas; GPS; Global Positioning System; IEEE 802.11af; LTE-A; Long Term Evolution Advanced; Minkowski island; defected ground-plane structure; dual element multiband MIMO antenna; fractal geometry; multiple input multiple output antenna; multiple wireless communication; Europe; Geometry; MIMO; Mobile antennas; Mobile handsets; IEEE 802.11af; LTE-A; MIMO antenna; Multiband wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (ICECCT), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Coimbatore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-6084-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICECCT.2015.7226184
