Investigation and design of enhanced decoupled UWB MIMO antenna for wearable applications

Abstract

AbstractA lightweight multi‐input multi‐output (MIMO) two‐element wearable ultra‐wideband (UWB) antenna having a port isolation of greater than 21 dB is introduced in this communication. The proposed structure includes wearable jeans cloth as a substrate, wherein two inverted u‐formed stubs are mounted in the middle position located on the backside of antenna and attached to the partially etched ground for enhancing the characteristics of port isolation. The developed UWB MIMO antenna has a size of 50 x 35 mm2 and covers the frequency range operating from 1.83 to 13.82 GHz (~153.2%). The suggested MIMO antenna is inexpensive and functions across a broad frequency range of applications including WLAN (2.4‐2.484 GHz/5.15‐5.35 GHz/5.72‐5.825 GHz), Downlink‐uplink WiMAX (3.2‐3.85 GHz), and C‐band (3.7‐4.2 GHz/5.925‐6.425 GHz). The diversity gain (DG) is found to be greater than 9.9 along with envelope correlation coefficient (ECC) to be less than 0.059 across the entire operating bandwidth. The proposed MIMO antenna's channel power loss is bestowed to be less than 0.35 bit/s/Hz. The SAR results of the proposed UWB MIMO design admits that the antenna performs satisfactorily and is suitable for wearable applications. Simulation and testing fairly proved the output of the proposed antenna as a righteous candidate applicable for UWB MIMO applications.