Abstract
A Novel dual notched 4-element MIMO (Multi-Input-Multi-Output) antenna with gap sleeves and H-slot is proposed and fabricated for UWB (ultra wide-band) applications. The proposed antenna is CPW (Co-Planar Waveguide) fed and consists of four orthogonal elements with good isolation. It has low profile and small dimensions of 80 × 80 × 1.6 mm 3 . The proposed MIMO antenna achieved an impedance bandwidth (S11 <; -10$ dB) from 2.1GHz - 20GHz with notches from 3.3GHz - 4.1GHz and 8.2GHz - 8.6GHz frequency bands. These achieved notches can filter the interference of WiMAX(3.3GHz - 3.7GHz), and military/radar applications band (8.2GHz - 8.6GHz). Mutual coupling among the elements is also below -25dB. The performance parameters of proposed MIMO antenna are relatively good with very low ECC (Envelop Correlation Coefficient) less than 0.02 except at notches and DG (Diversity Gain) nearly 10. Peak gain of 5.8dB is achieved by the proposed antenna and the radiation efficiency is also above 80% except at notches.The computer-generated and experimental results are in accord and therefore, the proposed four element MIMO antenna can be suggested as a suitable aspirant for UWB applications with stop bands for WiMAX and military/radar applications.
Highlights
Ultra wideband (UWB) antennas have become a trend from the past few years because of their low cost, high data rates and large communication capacity
Many narrowband communication systems operating at WiMAX (3.33.8GHz), WLAN (5.15-5.85GHz), and X-band communication satellites (7.99-8.4GHz) frequency bands are in existence and notch band UWB Multi input multi output (MIMO) antenna is desirable to reject such existing frequency bands in UWB communication system
The measured and simulated Scattering parameter characteristics in all cases are in good agreement and the proposed 4-element orthogonal MIMO antenna can be validated for UWB applications
Summary
Ultra wideband (UWB) antennas have become a trend from the past few years because of their low cost, high data rates and large communication capacity. UWB MIMO antennas with dual and triple band notch characteristics are presented in [6] – [19]. Four element differential pair UWB polarization diversity MIMO antenna is proposed in [7] with dual notch characteristics at WiMAX and WLAN bands.
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