Abstract
A simple, compact MIMO antenna that operates in the UWB frequency band is presented in this paper. The proposed antenna consists of four elements where the shape of the radiators derived from series modifications of a conventional rectangular patch antenna. Radiators are placed orthogonally to each other to achieve the dual polarization operation and cross shape Defected Ground Structure (DGS) is inserted in the ground plane to improve decoupling between the antenna elements. The designed model was fabricated on FR-4 substrate with dimensions of 48 × 44 × 1.6 mm3 and measurements were performed to validate the simulated results. The fractional bandwidth reaches 112% from 3.1 GHz to 11 GHz with reflection coefficient less than -10 dB and mutual coupling between antenna elements is less than -20 dB. The antenna has a stable radiation pattern, and low gain variation. In addition, the time domain characteristics and diversity performance indicators were evaluated and compared with the standard values. The miniaturized dimensioning of the antenna along with the good performance metrics indicates that the proposed antenna can be used in various UWB applications such as portable handheld devices.
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