Mutual coupling reduction in MIMO antennas using artificial magnetic materials

Author

Suwailam, Mohammed M Bait ; Boybay, Muhammed S. ; Ramahi, Omar M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

fYear

2009

fDate

15-18 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, artificial magnetic resonators are used in order to reduce mutual coupling in Multiple-input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems. Split-ring resonator (SRR) inclusions are inserted between closely-spaced high-profile monopole antenna elements. It is shown that mutual coupling between the antenna elements can be reduced significantly by incorporating such magnetic inclusions. The magnetic materials work as insulators, and thus can be applied in a variety of antenna applications.

Keywords

MIMO communication; monopole antenna arrays; resonators; MIMO antennas; artificial magnetic materials; artificial magnetic resonators; insulators; monopole antenna elements; multiple-input multiple-output systems; mutual coupling reduction; split-ring resonator inclusions; Electromagnetics; MIMO; Magnetic materials; Meetings; Mutual coupling; artificial magnetic materials; monopole antnenas; mutual coupling; split-ring resonators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics and the Canadian Radio Science Meeting, 2009. ANTEM/URSI 2009. 13th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2979-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2980-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ANTEMURSI.2009.4805043

Filename

4805043