Four element antenna array working at 2.4/5.2 GHz for wireless USB dongle applications

Author

Abidin, Z.Z. ; Abd-Alhameed, R.A. ; See, C.H. ; Ali, N.T. ; Excell, P.S.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Bradford, Bradford, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

25-28 March 2012

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

45

Abstract

A four-element antenna array for a USB dongle multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna working in dual 2.4/5.2 GHz frequency bands is presented. For achieving reasonably low mutual coupling and good return loss characteristics of the antenna array, the positions of the antenna element are optimised within a compact low cost FR4 PCB board with dimensions of 25 × 50 × 0.8mm³. The array is evaluated as a MIMO antennas is presented, with analysis of the mutual coupling, correlation coefficient, total active reflection coefficient (TARC) and capacity loss. The proposed antenna meets the requirements for practical application within a wireless communications system.

Keywords

MIMO communication; UHF antennas; microwave antenna arrays; printed circuits; system buses; FR4 PCB board; MIMO antenna; USB dongle multiple-input multiple-output antenna; capacity loss; correlation coefficient; four element antenna array; frequency 2.4 GHz to 5.2 GHz; mutual coupling; return loss characteristics; total active reflection coefficient; wireless USB dongle application; wireless communications system; Antenna arrays; Arrays; Correlation; MIMO; Mutual coupling; Universal Serial Bus;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON), 2012 16th IEEE Mediterranean

Conference_Location

Yasmine Hammamet

ISSN

2158-8473

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0782-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MELCON.2012.6196376

Filename

6196376