Suppression of mutual coupling between the elements of a MIMO antenna array for GSM/UMTS/PCS applications

Author

Bakouchi, R.J.E. ; Ghammaz, Abdelilah ; Ibnyaich, Saida

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Cadi Ayyad Univ., Marrakesh, Morocco

fYear

2012

fDate

5-6 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A study of the suppression of the mutual coupling between the radiating elements of a compact planar inverted-F multi-band antenna array (PIFA, henceforth) located on a finite ground plane for Multiple Inputs Multiple Output (MIMO, henceforth) systems that will be presented in this paper. The identical two PIFAs are placed seperately without making any distance. Whereas the mutual coupling suppression is achieved by maximizing the separation between those elements. The PIFA is designed to operate at GSM [880-960 MHz], UMTS [1920-2170 MHz] and PCS [1880-1950 MHz] frequencies bands for the MIMO application. Furthermore; the simulation analysis was performed using the Ansoft Simulator.

Keywords

MIMO communication; UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; planar antenna arrays; planar inverted-F antennas; Ansoft Simulator analysis; GSM-UMTS-PCS application; MIMO antenna array; PIFA; compact planar inverted-F multiband antenna array; element radiation; finite ground plane location; frequency 1880 MHz to 1950 MHz; frequency 1920 MHz to 2170 MHz; frequency 880 MHz to 960 MHz; multiple input multiple output system; mutual coupling suppression; 3G mobile communication; Antenna arrays; Antenna radiation patterns; Arrays; GSM; MIMO; Mutual coupling; Antenna Array; GSM; MIMO; Multi-band PIFA antenna; Mutual Coupling; PCS; UMTS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Complex Systems (ICCS), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Agadir

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4764-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICoCS.2012.6458527

Filename

6458527