Compact Low-Profile Dual-Port Single Wideband Planar Inverted-F MIMO Antenna

Author

Chattha, Hassan Tariq ; Nasir, Mashood ; Abbasi, Qammer H. ; Yi Huang ; Alja´afreh, Saqer S.

Author_Institution

Faisalabad Campus, Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Eng. & Technol. (Lahore), Faisalabad, Pakistan

Volume

12

fYear

2013

fDate

2013

Firstpage

1673

Lastpage

1675

Abstract

This letter presents a very simple low-profile and compact single-element two-port planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) with applications in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) and Long Term Evolution (LTE) bands. The two feeding plates are placed perpendicular to each other where polarization diversity is exploited due to the fact that the two ports are cross-polarized. To isolate the two feeding ports, a slot is etched on the ground plane. This single-element PIFA has a height of h=5 mm, which makes it suitable for handheld applications and covers a wide frequency band from around 2.1 to 2.9 GHz for dB, therefore having applications in WLAN (2.45 GHz) and LTE and Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) band (2.5-2.7 GHz), and can be used as a 4G terminal antenna for diversity and multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) applications .

Keywords

4G mobile communication; Long Term Evolution; MIMO communication; UHF antennas; WiMax; antenna feeds; broadband antennas; electromagnetic wave polarisation; planar inverted-F antennas; wireless LAN; 4G terminal antenna; LTE; Long Term Evolution band; WLAN; WiMAX; compact single-element two-port planar inverted-F antenna; cross-polarization; feeding plates; frequency 2.1 GHz to 2.9 GHz; handheld application; multiple-input-multiple-output application; planar inverted-F MIMO antenna; single-element PIFA; wideband antenna; wireless local area network; worldwide interoperability for microwave access; Antenna measurements; Diversity methods; Feeds; MIMO; Ports (Computers); Antennas; diversity; isolation; multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) antennas; planar antennas; planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2013.2293765

Filename

6678585