Compact 4 port MIMO antenna using polarization and pattern diversity

Author

Anitha, R. ; Mathew, Sumitha ; Vinesh, P.V. ; Mohanan, P. ; Vasudevan, K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Cochin Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Cochin, India

fYear

2015

fDate

13-15 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A compact 4 port MIMO antenna system is proposed in this paper with an area of 60×60 mm². The antenna operates at 2.45 GHz with an overall area of nearly 1λ. The antenna consists of a cross patch embedded inside a square ring patch antenna. The strong mutual coupling between ports is reduced below -24 dB by etching a square ring defected ground structure on the ground. The isolation structure reduces surface waves and cross polarization levels providing an isolation improvement of 8.5 dB. The antenna can be used for multiple input multiple output systems and have very low envelope correlation less than 0.1 between its waveforms. Measurements and characteristics of antenna system fabricated on an FR4 substrate are provided.

Keywords

MIMO communication; UHF antennas; diversity reception; microstrip antenna arrays; FR4 substrate; antenna system; compact 4 port MIMO antenna; cross polarization; input multiple output systems; pattern diversity; polarization; square ring defected ground structure; square ring patch antenna; Antenna measurements; Antennas; MIMO; Periodic structures; Resonant frequency; Thickness measurement; Correlation; Diversity methods; Isolation technology; MIMO systems; Microstrip antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), 2015 IEEE 16th Annual

Conference_Location

Cocoa Beach, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAMICON.2015.7120360

Filename

7120360