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Compact UWB Antenna Design for MIMO Applications
1Baskaran Kasi, 1Gabraiel Victor Manickam and 2Chandan Kumar Chakrabarty
1Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Universiti Infrastruktur Kuala Lumpur
2Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Kajang, Selangor 43000, Malaysia
Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology 2013 22:4225-4230
Received: February 15, 2013 | Accepted: March 14, 2013 | Published: December 05, 2013
Abstract
In this study, a compact printed Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna with a dimension of 32×70 mm2 has been proposed for Ultra-Wideband (UWB) systems applications. The design constitutes of two identical UWB antenna elements, which is etched onto a Taconic TLC-30 printed circuit board. The proposed antenna has been designed and simulated using computer simulation software. For validation purposes, antenna prototype is fabricated and tested. The UWB-MIMO antenna yields an impedance bandwidth of 2.9 to 12 GHz with a return loss of less than-10 dB. Furthermore, the isolation characteristic between the two antenna elements is more than 15 dB within the operating frequency range. The designed structure is found to provide good MIMO/diversity characteristic across the UWB band.
Keywords:
Antenna diversity, correlation coefficients, Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna, mutual coupling, planar antenna array, Ultra Wideband (UWB) systems,
Competing interests
The authors have no competing interests.
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ISSN (Online): 2040-7467
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